Prof Sujit Kumar Bala has been appointed as the new chairman of the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) Board.
He will succeed former Dhaka WASA chairman Golam Mostafa, according to a circular issued on Monday signed by Md Akbar Hossain, deputy secretary of Local Government Division under the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives.
Prof Sujit Kumar is the director of the Institute of Water and Flood Management at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).
The order will come into effect immediately, the circular reads.