Ashrayan-2 Project: No homeless people in 7 more districts
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her government has been working to ensure all homeless people get houses with land.
"Not a single person will remain homeless or landless in Bangladesh. We've been working to implement this goal," she said while providing 39,365 more houses with two-decimal land in the fourth phase under the Ashrayan-2 project to landless and homeless families.
This takes the total number of houses handed over since January 2021 to 215,827 under the Ashrayan-2 project of the Prime Minister's Office.
Hasina joined the event virtually from the Gono Bhaban. On her behalf, ministers, lawmakers and upazila chairmen, divisional commissioners, deputy commissioners and upazila nirbahi officers, who were present at different project sites, handed over the house and land documents to the beneficiaries of 493 upazilas across the country.
With the distribution of the houses, nine districts and 211 upazilas now have no one without a home or land.
Hasina also declared seven more districts and 159 more upazilas free of homeless or landless people. The districts are Madaripur, Gazipur, Narsingdi, Joypurhat, Rajshahi, Chapainawabganj and Chuadanga.
She earlier announced that 52 upazilas as well as Panchagarh and Magura districts are homeless and landless free areas.
Talking about the achievement, Hasina said if any family of these areas becomes homeless and landless due to natural disasters or other factors, the family will be given houses along with land.
She asked all to find out the landless families throughout the country or any family becoming homeless due to natural disasters or any other reason in the areas that were already declared homeless-free. The government will provide them with homes, she added.
At the event, she exchanged views with the beneficiaries of Nayapara Ashrayan project in Gazipur's Sreepur upazila and Uttarpar Ashrayan project under Barishal's Banaripara.
With the handover of 39,365 houses, a total of 196,825 people have now found shelter, getting semi-pucca houses on their own land.
PM's Principal Secretary M Tofazzel Hossain Miah conducted the event.
The 159 upazilas that were declared homeless-free areas include eight upazilas in Netrakona; six each in Narsingdi, Brahmanbaria, Cumilla, Rajshahi and Pirojpur; five each in Gazipur, Bogura and Kushtia; four each in Gopalganj, Madaripur, Kishoreganj, Sirajganj, Joypurhat, Chapainawabganj, Chuadanga, Patuakhali, Barishal and Sylhet; three each in Dhaka, Rajbari, Tangail, Mymensingh, Sherpur, Jamalpur, Chandpur, Dinajpur, Naogaon, Natore, Pabna, Satkhira, Jashore and Habiganj; two each in Manikganj, Munshiganj, Faridpur, Chattogram, Rangpur, Nilphamari, Meherpur and Jhalakathi; and one each in Shariatpur, Cox's Bazar, Gaibandha, Thakurgaon, Bhola, Barguna, Moulvibazar and Sunamganj.
The 52 upazilas, which were earlier declared homeless-free areas, are five in Panchagarh; four each in Mymensingh, Magura, Feni and Chattogram; three in Rajshahi; two each in Madaripur, Manikganj, Laxmipur and Bogura; and one each in Dhaka, Kishoreganj, Tangail, Rajbari, Faridpur, Netrakona, Jamalpur, Gaibandha, Dinajpur, Thakurgaon, Nilphamari, Naogaon, Joypurhat, Natore, Pabna, Chapainawabganj, Jhenidah, Satkhira, Jhalakathi and Patuakhali.
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