The Chittagong City Corporation on Thursday filed a general diary with the Khulshi police station in connection with Wednesday’s attack on its mobile court team at the city’s GEC crossing, police and corporation officials said. Police said the CCC inspector, Abul Monsur, filed the
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Control rooms setup
Chittagong district administration and Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) have opened separate control rooms in the port city to respond to any emergency call before and after the cyclone ‘Mahasen’. The Chittagong district administration has opened the control room in Deputy Commissioner’s office at the city’s Court Building. The control room’s phone number of Chittagong
CCC asks people to move from foothills as rain disrupts life
The Chittagong City Corporation and the Chittagong district administration on Sunday began making public announcement asking people to move from their households at city foothills which are vulnerably because of downpour. Mohammad Shamshuddoha, secretary of the CCC,
Demolition of Shebak Colony begins
The Chittagong City Corporation on Sunday began demolishing Shebak Colony, a dilapidated and risky building inhabited by cleaners of the corporation, at Patharghata under Kotwali police station in the port city. CCC sources said the building was identified as risky years back but the authorities failed to demolish it as the inhabitants did not leave ... Read more
CCC to take steps against risky buildings
The Chittagong City Corporation is going to take steps against the risky buildings to avoid losses of lives and property following the wake-up call by the country’s worst disaster ‘Rana Plaza’ collapse at Savar in Dhaka. The city mayor, M Manjur Alam Manju, in an emergency
Pritilata’s bronze sculpture to be installed in port city
A new bronze sculpture of Pritilata Waddedar, an associate of Master-da Surja Sen and the first Bengali woman to embrace martyrdom for freedom from British colonial rule, will be installed in front of Pahartali Railway School, adjacent to the then European Club, in the port city. As a tribute to her martyrdom in 1932, the ... Read more
CCC to use solar energy in street lights
The Chittagong City Corporation has undertaken a project involving more than Tk 52 crore to bring street lights on 180-kilometer stretch of city roads under solar energy system with an aim to ease the power crisis and reduce power bills. According to CCC sources, the project would be implemented with the financial assistance
CCC conservancy workers get nothing but neglect
Four workers of Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) were collecting garbage from a dustbin into a three-wheeled van in Lal Dighi area on July 30. They did not have any safety gears on them. Liquid waste was rolling down their bare arms to their elbows. That is how some 2,000 shebaks (conservancy workers) are working to ... Read more
Manpower, equipment crises hinder CCC waste management
Manpower crisis and inadequate equipment have been hindering waste management by the Chittagong City Corporation. According to the conservancy department of the corporation, the port city, inhabited by about 50 lakh people, on an average produces 1,200 tonnes of waste every