Mymensingh gets city corporation
Mymensingh municipality, a town with a 91.315sqk area and population of 471,858, has been upgraded as the country's 12th city corporation.
National Implementation Committee on Administrative Reforms (NICAR) approved a proposal in this regard at a meeting held at the Prime Minister's Office in the capital on Monday.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presided over the meeting, reports UNB.
After the meeting, cabinet division (coordination and reforms) secretary NM Ziaul Alam said the new city corporation will be consisted of Mymensingh municipality, two complete unions and parts of six unions from the 13 unions of Mymensingh sadar upazila.
He also said that the Mymensingh City Corporation has been constituted following the fulfilment of all the eight criteria of forming a city corporation.
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