The parliament authorities will not allocate any apartment to the ministers this time, the House Committee decided in its first meeting on Sunday.
In the previous parliaments, the ministers got apartments from the government and the employees, such as the chauffeurs and domestic hands, used to live in those apartments.
The House Committee, which allocated the accommodation to the MPs, at its meeting on Sunday decided that the parents, spouses, children and the siblings of the MPs would be allowed to live in the apartments in the capital’s Manik Mia Avenue and Nakhalpara, better known as the “NAM flats.”
No outsider would be allowed in the full-furnished apartments, decided the House Committee headed by the chief whip ASM Feroz.
“The MPs will get apartments according to the strength of their parties in the House. The political parties will send their lists for allocation of flats,” ASM Feroztold reporters after the meeting at the parliament building.
“The ministers will not get any apartment,” he said quoting the meeting decision.
The meeting formed a four-member sub-committee to look after the accommodation of the MPs of the 10th parliament. ASM Feroz is the chief of the sub-committee comprising Noor-E-Alam Chowdhury, Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury and Tajul Islam Chowdhury
A good number of MPs of the 9th parliament had their apartments allocated by the JatiyaSangsad authorities. Instead of the MPs, their distant relatives, chauffeurs and domestic hands lived therewhom the authorities failed evict.
The presence of outsiders in the flats allocated to the MPs resulted in frequent and small burglaries in the compound.
The MPs living in the apartments raised the issue at the House Committee, but the trend continued.
Source: Dhaka Tribune
