Fees raised to discourage grave preservation: DNCC Mayor

Staff Reporter :
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Md Atiqul Islam on Friday said that grave preservation fees have been increased to discourage people from awaiting the system.
“DNCC did not raise the fees for burials, it raised costs to discourage people from preserving graves,” the Mayor said while inaugurating a cemetery in Uttara in the capital.
Atiqul Islam said that they receive a large number of applications for grave preservation every day. “If such practice of preservation keeps going, there will be no space left for burials for the others.”
“I hope that the increased costs will discourage people to stop applying for grave preservation, and give common people to get enough spaces for burial,” the DNCC Mayor said.
He said that the DNCC cemetery is offering common people a lower price for the burial procedure. The fee for burying a dead body in the DNCC cemetery is just Tk 500, he added saying, for the poor, the fee has been reduced to Tk100.
“In case of ultra poor people, who cannot even afford that amount, a free burial option is available,” he said.
Atiqul Islam underlined the need for the people to work together with the DNCC to take care of the cemetery and other facilities provided by the city authority.