Over 355,000 landless and homeless families across the country will get shelters and livelihood by 2019 through one of the Prime Minister’s 10 priority initiatives -- Ashrayan Prakalpa.
“A total of 2, 64,442 families have so far been rehabilitated across the country under the scheme in three phases since 1997,” Project Director of the Ashrayan-2 Project Abul Kalam Shamsuddin said.
He said the project started in 1997 and the first two phases of the scheme were completed in 2010.
Shamsuddin said the government undertook the Ashrayan-2 project in 2010 for providing shelter to around 250,000 families at a cost of Tk 48.4028 billion which is scheduled to be finished by 2019.
Under this project, he said, the government rehabilitated a total of 1,58,529 families from July, 2010 till now.
The project director said at the same time, a total of 864 villages got electricity connection and around 460,000 trees were planted in the project areas.
“The rehabilitated people are leading a happy life with income-generating activities and their children are going to schools to become worthy citizens of the country,” he said.
He said, the government has already allocated housing to 1,15,775 homeless families, including 601 beggars under the project.
“The construction of houses for homeless people is ongoing and about 30 houses have already been constructed,” he added.
Shamsuddin said the government has undertaken the project to make the life of the homeless people meaningful through providing shelter and assistance, reports BSS.
He said the activities of the project will be accelerated further in future to alleviate poverty for materialising the ‘Vision 2021’ and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
