Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives (LGRD) Engineer Khondker Mosharraf Hossain yesterday said the district councils will soon get elected representatives instead of nominated ones, reports UNB. “Law will be framed next week for holding election to district councils,” he said adding that district councils across the country will be strengthened further to reach services to the doorstep of the people. The minister said this while speaking as the chief guest at the annual review meeting of district council at the auditorium of the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) at Agargaon in the capital. Stating that extensive development at the grassroots level is possible for decentralisation of power, Mosharraf said the district council should be given the scope to become the driving force for overall development of the district through right planning against the backdrop of present time and implementation of the same. He said the District Council has been playing a vital role in poverty alleviation, sustainable development and building a digital Bangladesh.
The minister said the scale of corruption declined to 70 to 75 percent in the country due to the fruits of digitalisation and the administrators of the district councils should attain much more capacity building in the digitalisation.
He  called upon all to work together for socio-economic development of the masses with a view to reaching the fruits of the government’s development activities to all the regions of the country.
Local Government Division organised the meeting with its Secretary Abdul Malek in the chair.
 LGED chief engineer Shyama Prasad Adhikari, secretary Rangpur District Council Arzoo Ara Begum, chief executive officer of Cox’s Bazar District Council Khondokar Zahirul Islam, administrators of Sunamganj District Council Barrister M Enamul Kabir, Patuakhali District Council Khan Mosharraf Hossain, Rangpur District Council Mamtaj Uddin Ahmed, Mymensingh District Council Advocate Zahirul Haq, Gazipur District Council Akhteruzzaman and Khulna District Council Harunur Rashid were the discussants, among others.