DHAKA, Jan 22, 2018 (BSS) – President M Abdul Hamid today said the households’ survey can play an important role in ensuring proper service delivery to mass people.
He came up with the remark as he filled up a form of household data at Bangabhaban as part of the data collection programme under the 2nd phase of the National Household Database (NHD) project undertaken by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).
“The President asked all the people involved in the households data collection to gather necessary information from the citizens cordially and honestly so that the real picture of the survey can be depicted”, President’s Press Secretary M Joynal Abedin told BSS this evening.
Data collection under the 2nd phase of the National Household Database (NHD) project started on January 14 in 25 districts this year as part of the government’s bid to prepare an integrated database on socio-economic conditions of people through direct interviewing. This data collection would continue till February 2.
President Abdul Hamid urged people to provide all-out cooperation in this regard to make the ongoing programme a success.
Referring to the necessity of this programme, Abdul Hamid said this data collection is very urgent to ensure actual citizens’ benefits in different aspects under the various social safety net coverage provided by the government.
Secretary of Statistics and Informatics Division AKM Mozammel Haque and concerned secretaries to the President were present there.