DACCA, Pakistan, Monday, March 15 — Sheik Mujibur Rahman announced early today that he was taking over administration of East Pakistan.

Sheik Mujib, leader of the Awami League, which seeks autonomy for East Pakistan, said in an official announcement that he was assuming control of the affairs of East Pakistan's 70 million residents.

Sheik Mujib said he based his take‐over on the Awami League's dominant political position in East Pakistan, where it won 288 seats in the 310‐ member provincial assembly, and 167 seats in the 313‐member National Assembly during last December's election.

East Pakistan is separated from West Pakistan, where the central Government is situated, by 1,000 miles of Indian territory.

Tax‐Collecting Suspended

Sheik Mujib issued a total of 35 directives. He suspended collection of income taxes by the central Government and barred remittance of customs and excise duties and sales taxes, which are normally sent to the central Government.

Sheik Mujib said that the take‐over of administration was aimed at the “emancipation of the people of Bangla Desh,” or Bengal homeland.

Yesterday Pakistani Army troops took positions on watch towers ringing the Presidential house in Dacca, indicating that President Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan might come soon to discuss the Awami's League's autonomy demands. The President said last week that he planned to visit Dacca.

Security forces also cleared roadblocks and other obstacles from a road linking the airport and Dacca. The obstructions had been put up by supporters of Sheik Mujib.

The Awami League chief told newsmen, “I am still willing to meet President Yahya.”

But he said in an interview that “I want my demands—I want my people to get their rights.” He said his demands must be met before his party would agree to attend the National Assembly session, re scheduled by President Yahya for March 25, to draft a new Constitution.

The demands include lifting of martial law—in force since March, 1969—immediate trans fer of powers to the elected people's representatives, withdrawal of troops from East Pakistan, an inquiry into killings by troops during the cur rent disturbances and compensation for victims. At least 300 persons have been reported killed in rioting and other incidents this month.

Threat by Bhutto

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's People's party, the major party in West Pakistan, is opposed to autonomy for East Pakistan and threatened to boycott the Assembly, in which his party has 81 seats. President Yahya then postponed the session, scheduled to open on March 3, until March 25. Sheik Mujib then called a general strike in protest, and there were violent demonstrations in the East.

East Pakistan has long protested the economic domination by the West, which has 15 million fewer people. Mr. Bhutto's principal quarrel with Sheik Mujib is over the East's insistence that foreign aid, foreign trade and foreign exchange should be the prerogatives of the country's five provinces— East Pakistan and the four provinces of West Pakistan.

East Pakistan has also based its demands for autonomy on the West's domination of the federal Government and the army. The East Pakistani's want the central Government to look after only foreign affairs, defense and some economic questions. Sheik Mujib has complained that the East has been used as “a colony and a market.”

Last Friday, the Awami League broadened the East's self‐rule when it took steps to cope with mounting economic problems.

The party issued orders to banks—most of which are branches of banks in the West —to lengthen working hours and to loosen payments for production and trade purposes. The party also authorized free transfers of funds within the province. But it kept in effect a ban on remittances to the West.

The economic steps last week came after the refusal Tuesday by East Pakistani officials, obeying league orders, to go to work for martial‐law authorities assigned by the West to administer the East.