Rajshahi city corpn in grip of financial crisis
Monday, 22 October 2007
Our correspondent
RAJSHAHI, Oct 21: Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) is facing an acute financial crisis. The employees and staff of the RCC are also anxious about getting their salaries regularly. Specially, the master roll employees have turned into a burden for the authorities of RCC.
According to RCC sources, the number of present staff and employees of RCC is 2,508. Among them 750 are regular employees and the rest 1,700 are irregular or master roll employees.
There is complaint about former Mayor Mizanur Rahman Minu that he hired many followers of his party at RCC. These employees were getting their salary for many years but recently, several hundred were fired. Still there are many who cannot be fired because of humanitarian reasons.
Among them, 20 employees are computer operators who get Tk 120 per day. Other employees are paid Tk 80 per day. Some master roll employees are paid a daily wage of less than Tk 80.
It is alleged, many other employees who work only by verbal order are given allowance by cutting the wages of master roll employees.
Sources said, every month RCC pays its employees Tk 94 lakh in salaries, wages and other allowances. Including other expenditures, RCC expends about Tk 18 crore a year. But RCC earns some 14 to 15 crore taka a year. So, for the last several years, Rajshahi City Corporation has been facing an acute fund shortage and to fill up the shortage former mayor Minu used to manage money from other sectors.
It is learnt, because of taking loans, RCC owed Tk 21 crore from other sectors. Recently, RCC has paid taka 3 crore as outstanding loan.
It is learnt, RCC has already closed many of its programmes like mosquito eradication programme but still the employees are not getting their salary on time.
RAJSHAHI, Oct 21: Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) is facing an acute financial crisis. The employees and staff of the RCC are also anxious about getting their salaries regularly. Specially, the master roll employees have turned into a burden for the authorities of RCC.
According to RCC sources, the number of present staff and employees of RCC is 2,508. Among them 750 are regular employees and the rest 1,700 are irregular or master roll employees.
There is complaint about former Mayor Mizanur Rahman Minu that he hired many followers of his party at RCC. These employees were getting their salary for many years but recently, several hundred were fired. Still there are many who cannot be fired because of humanitarian reasons.
Among them, 20 employees are computer operators who get Tk 120 per day. Other employees are paid Tk 80 per day. Some master roll employees are paid a daily wage of less than Tk 80.
It is alleged, many other employees who work only by verbal order are given allowance by cutting the wages of master roll employees.
Sources said, every month RCC pays its employees Tk 94 lakh in salaries, wages and other allowances. Including other expenditures, RCC expends about Tk 18 crore a year. But RCC earns some 14 to 15 crore taka a year. So, for the last several years, Rajshahi City Corporation has been facing an acute fund shortage and to fill up the shortage former mayor Minu used to manage money from other sectors.
It is learnt, because of taking loans, RCC owed Tk 21 crore from other sectors. Recently, RCC has paid taka 3 crore as outstanding loan.
It is learnt, RCC has already closed many of its programmes like mosquito eradication programme but still the employees are not getting their salary on time.