A district council or zila parishad , or zilla parishad is a local government body at the district level in Bangladesh . The Bengali word parishad means council and zila parishad translates to district council .
4-465: Zila Parishad means District Council and may refer to: District councils of Bangladesh District council (India) See also [ edit ] District council (disambiguation) Panchayati raj , administrative system in India Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
8-469: A mixture of representative members and appointed members. Half of the members of a zila parishad were elected (the Members of Parliament for the district and the chairman of Union Parishads and town Committees in the district). The government appointed the remaining half. The Constitution of Bangladesh states that local government bodies will consist of elected representatives but this has rarely been
12-574: The case in history. The deputy commissioner (popularly abbreviated to "DC") of the district became the ex officio chairman of the district council. He is appointed by the government from a Deputy secretary of BCS Administration Cadre. He is also called district magistrate. The functions of the district council include construction and maintenance of roads, and bridges, building hospitals and dispensaries, schools and educational institutions, health facilities and sanitation, tube wells for drinking water, rest houses, and coordination of activities of
16-567: The title Zila Parishad . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zila_Parishad&oldid=1222018045 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages District councils of Bangladesh The 1988 Local Government (Zila Parishad) Act provided for zila parishads constituted with
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