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38 insolvent freedom fighters got houses in Narail
NARAIL, Nov 3, 2018 (BSS) – A total of 38 landless and insolvent freedom
fighters (FFs) have got small dwelling houses named ‘Bir Nibash’ in Sadar,
Lohagara and Kalia upazila of the district.
Local Government and Engineering Department (LGED) constructed the houses
spending Taka over 3.13 crore and handed over the freedom fighters, a LGED
official said.
Each of the small houses has one living room, two bedrooms, one kitchen
and a verandah. The floor area is on 500 square feet, in addition to a
washroom, a pucca premises, tubewell, toilet, livestock-shed and poultry-
shed.
Chief executive engineer of LGED, Narail, Bidhan Chandra said the
government is implementing the household project across the country under
“Construction of Households for Landless and Insolvent Freedom Fighters”
project.
Under the project, the government will build a 500 square-feet pucca house
with facilities of water supply and sanitation.
The freedom fighter of the district got the houses as gifts of Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina, he said.
Freedom fighters Jalal Ahamed and Saidur Rahman expressed their
satisfaction and gratitude to the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after getting
the houses saying “We don’t have any shelter. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is
providing us with monthly allowances keeping in mind our suffering. Now we
got our shelter”.
BSS/CORR/FI/ 1526 hrs