Chittagong Development Authority Chairman Salam to remain in office for two more years

The government has extended the term of Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) Chairman Abdus Salam by two more years.

Chittagong Bureaubdnews24.com
Published : 16 April 2015, 06:38 PM
Updated : 16 April 2015, 06:38 PM

A statement of the public administration ministry confirmed the extension for the fourth time on Thursday.
 
Salam, treasurer of ruling Awami League’s port city unit, was willing to fight for the mayor’s post in the Apr 28 elections. 

But the unit’s General Secretary AJM Nasir Uddin got the party’s support.
 
The ministry said Salam’s contractual appointment will be effective from Apr 23, 2015 or the date of his joining.

The CDA chairman thanked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for keeping faith in him.
 
“I want to work with everyone’s blessing,” he said.
 
Businessman Salam was appointed CDA chief on Apr 23, 2009 as the first politician to hold the office.
 
He joined the Awami League under the leadership of former mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury.
 
The flyover at Bahaddarhat was built during his term.
 
He was criticised when 13 people died on Nov 24, 2012 after a girder of the flyover collapsed during construction.

The prime minister inaugurated another flyover project under the CDA at Muradpur in November last year.
 
Work to build a flyover at Dewanhat is complete and another flyover at Kadamtali is being built.

Though Salam is taking up one flyover project after another, experts say Chittagong’s Detailed Area Plan has no proposal to build any flyover to avoid traffic congestions.