The Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority have taken punitive measures, including termination and demotion, against 50 of it employees on charges of corruptions.
DWASA officials at an opinion sharing meeting at the WASA building in Dhaka on Thursday disclosed the information.
The meeting was organised marking one year of the DWASA Turnaround Programme 2010-12 that began in June, 2010.
DWASA managing director Taqsem A Khan said the programme was trying to bring transparency, accountability, and corporate management in the authority's character with a view to ensuring better customer services.
'We do not want to indulge corruption but it is harsh reality that we are not free from corruption,' he said, adding that 'You can not deny it in the situation of present Bangladesh.'
On curbing corruption, the managing director said they filed about a hundred departmental cases against about one hundred employees, ranked from security guards to superintendent engineers, in the first year of the turnaround programme.
'About 50 per cent of the cases were settled and the rest are under trial,' he said.
He also said that four employees were terminated without giving job benefits, some were terminated with giving limited benefits, some were demoted, and some employees were deprived of annual salary increment.
Responding to a question whether the WASA would make public the names of the employees responsible for the crimes, Taqsem A Khan said they would consider the issue later.
He said that if the authority published the names, the people concerned could be humiliated socially, though DWASA would consider the journalists' request.
He assured the media that the WASA management was not hostage to any power over making the names public though the service providing agency was engaged in a culture of corruption.
He also told media that, on the occasion of forth coming Ramadan, the authorities concerned had planned several programmes, including supplying free water at mosques and slum dwellers, ensuring fitness of water tankers and generators and setting up new deep tube-wells and repairing the olds.
He said the system loss of DWASA reduced to 29 per cent from 34 per cent.
At the programme, among other,
DWASA chief engineer SDM Quamrul Alam Chowdhury, deputy managing directors Mohammad Mahbubur Rahman, Mohammad Liakath Ali and Sayed Golam Ahmmad were also present.
Source : New Age
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