Dist, upazila-level anti-graft bodies likely to start functioning at Dec-end

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Corruption prevention committees at district and upazila levels, a move initiated by the Anti-Corruption
Commission (ACC) with a view to creating mass awareness against graft, are likely to begin functioning at the end of December next, reports UNB.
"We've already received names of the proposed members of all the corruption prevention committees at the district and upazila levels.
Six ACC directors were assigned to verify the names in the country's six divisions and the verification was supposed to be completed by Ramadan," a competent source told the news agency.
He, however, said they have not yet received the verification report.
The source said ACC Chairman Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury, who has so far visited 31 districts, will start visiting the remaining 34 districts from mid-November. "On completion of his visits to all the 64 districts and the verification, members of the committees will be called in the capital Dhaka in phases to brief them on their responsibilities."
So, the source said, it would take until the end of December for the Commission to complete all the work and thus enable the committees to start working.
Replying to a query, he said there are objections about 22 upazila prevention committees out of nearly 480, but there is no objection about the district committees.
Echoing the ACC Chairman's earlier statement, he said 10-member district and 6-member upazila committees would have nothing to do with inquiries and investigations. "They'll only create mass awareness against corruption."