Barisal Correspondent :
Officials and employees of Barisal City Corporation abstaining from work held agitation rally on Monday demanding arrear salaries.
After visiting the spot on Monday noon it was found that signing daily attendance registers officials and employees of BCC started their strike and agitation rally in front of the Nagor Bhaban (BCC building) chanting slogans demanding their five month dues.
Anisur Rahman one of temporary staff of taxation department said his salaries due from November last. So they bound to start agitation programme and strike.
`We are passing hard days in our daily life and now it became unbearable. So the programme will continue till fulfilling our demand , said another employee of BCC.
`The agitation programme started from February and BCC authority assured us to pay two month dues and 6 month provident fund but they failed to execute their announced promises, said Dipok Lal Mridha, BCC conservancy officer.
` Now our 542 permanent and 1600 temporary staff’s demanding five months arrear salaries and 32-month deposits of provident fund’ he added.
Md. Wahiduzzaman, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), said `BCC trying to increase revenue collection to solve the problem. With poor amounts of revenue collections we became unable to regularise payment of monthly salaries.
However we trying our best to pay at least two months of arrear dues of salaries as early as possible’- the BCC CEO added.
