He said these things while speaking as the chief guest at a meeting on the implementation and monitoring of the cleanliness programme of Dhaka metropolitan city, held at Shapla Hall of the Prime Minister's Office on Monday afternoon. He said that if government employees cannot keep their own quarters clean, they have no right to stay there. At that time, he directed the members of the monitoring committee to take strict legal action wherever irregularities and larvae are found.
It was informed at the meeting that, on the instructions of the Prime Minister, 20 special monitoring committees have been formed in 20 zone-based areas of Dhaka North and South City Corporations. Ten teams will work in Dhaka North and ten in the South, led by officials at the director level of the Prime Minister's Office. The meeting was presided over by Principal Secretary of the Prime Minister's Office A B M Abdus Sattar, and State Minister for Housing and Public Works Ahmmad Sohel Manzur was the special guest.
The State Minister for Local Government said that to restore the beauty of the capital, along with cleaning Hatirjheel, Dhanmondi, Banani and Gulshan Lake, work is ongoing to re-excavate 55 canals of the two city corporations (29 in the north and 26 in the south). He also said that to prevent theft, the two city corporations will install new fibreboard bins instead of plastic or iron dustbins. The State Minister expressed hope that due to the coordinated and strict role of the teams, a visible change will come to Dhaka within the next one to two months.