The government on Monday appointed administrators for 61 district councils across the country as their chairmen have been absent.

The Local Government Division issued a gazette notification signed by Deputy Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam in this regard.

Additional divisional commissioners (general) of eight divisions were appointed as administrators for Dhaka, Chittagong, Rajshahi, Barisal, Rangpur, Sylhet, Khulna and Mymensingh.

The administrators will exercise power and perform duty in their respective districts until further notice.

Moreover, they will only be provided duty allowance, no salary and facility will be available, according to the notification.

In another gazette notification, the government also relieved 323 elected mayors from the posts on the same ground.

The notification, signed by Md Mahbub Alam, deputy secretary of the Municipality-1 Department of the Local Government Division, said this.

Chairmen and mayors of district councils and municipalities of the country went into hiding after former prime minister Sheikh Hasina fled the county on August 5.