Gazipur City Corporation

Gazipur City Corporation (Bengali: গাজীপুর সিটি কর্পোরেশন - in short: GCC) established in 2013, is one of the city corporations of Bangladesh. Before its establishment as city corporation, it was a municipal corporation. Current mayor of GCC is Jahangir Alam who was advocated by Bangladesh Awami League. Basically, Gazipur City Corporation is a formation under the local government administration of Bangladesh to regulate the city area of Gazipur, which is under the Ministry of Local Government & Rural Development (LGRD). Currently the minister of LGRD ministry is Sayed Ashraful Islam. Generally under local government, an election is held to elect a mayor of Gazipur City Corporation. Gazipur City Corporation's total area is 329.23 square kilometers with approximately has the population of 40,00,000 people in the city corporation area.[2]

Gazipur City Corporation
গাজীপুর সিটি কর্পোরেশন
Corporation Logo
Formation16 January 2013
TypeMunicipal
HeadquartersGazipur Nagar Bhaban
Official language
Bengali
Jahangir Alam (Awami League)[1]
Websitegazipurcity.com

Mayor of Gazipur
ElectionMayorParty
2013 M. A. Mannan Bangladesh Nationalist Party
2018 Jahangir Alam Bangladesh Awami League

Elections

Election Result 2018
Gazipur City Corporation Election 2018
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Awami League Jahangir Alam 4,00,010
BNP Hasan Uddin Sarkar 1,97,611
Awami League gain from BNP

Election Result 2013
Gazipur City Corporation Election 2013
Party Candidate Votes % ±
BNP M. A. Mannan 3,65,444
Awami League Ajmat Ullah Khan 2,58,867
BNP win (new seat)

Important establishments
  1. Islamic University of Technology (IUT)
  2. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University (BSMRAU)
  3. Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI)
  4. Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI)
  5. Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology (DUET)
  6. Rani Bilashmoni Govt. Boys' High School
  7. Seed Certification Agency (SCA)
  8. National Agricultural Training Academy (NATA)
  9. Agricultural Training Institute (ATI)
  10. Shahid Tazuddin Ahmed Medical College
  11. Joydebpur Govt. Girls' High School
  12. Bhawal Badre Alam Govt. University College
  13. National University
  14. Bangladesh Open University
  15. Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory Ltd. (BMTF)
  16. Security Printing Press Ltd.
  17. Bangladesh Ordinance Factory(BOF)
  18. Bangladesh Diesel Plant Ltd.
  19. Ansar Academy
  20. Bangabandhu Safari Park
  21. Hi-tech Park

References
  1. "AL's Jahangir Alam elected Gazipur mayor". The Daily Star. 27 June 2018.
  2. "Gazipur City Corporation". gazipurcity.com.

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