Fund Crisis
1,400 LGED project staff not getting salaries
Staff Correspondent, Bogra
Over 1,400 staff of the Rural Infrastructure Development Project -26 under the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) are not getting salaries for about one and a half years due to fund constraint, officials said. Project Director (PD) Tobarok Hossain admitted the fact and said the government decided to terminate all the temporary staff of the World Bank (WB) funded project. Earlier, 400 employees under the project were terminated from job. The project started at a cost of US 190 dollars. Mohammed Asaduzzman, a temporary staff under the project, addressed a press conference at Bogra Reporters' Forum auditorium here recently on behalf of 1,500 staff of the project in 21 districts. He said to local journalists that all sorts of financial benefit including their salaries were stopped without any notice since December 5. Samana, a cleaner of the LGED here revealed at the press conference that she had borrowed Tk 35,000 to meet up her family expenses in last 18 months. Another cleaner, Hamida said she had borrowed Tk 30,000 from her relatives for survival but he could not refund the money as yet.
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