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JS body for special allocation for erosion victims
DHAKA, August 29, 2019 (BSS) – The Parliamentary Standing Committee on
Disaster Management and Relief Ministry today strongly recommended taking
initiatives to provide erosion and flood victims with special allocation as
early as possible.
The recommendation was made at the 5th meeting held at Parliament House
with its chairman AB Tajul Islam in the chair, said a press release.
The meeting discussed about the work plans and actions taken by the
ministry in flood and erosion prone areas.
The committee placed a recommendation to provide the victims with emergency
help and house building materials soon as possible, the release added.
The meeting also recommended the ministry to take initiatives to start the
work of making concrete roads to make the herringbone roads sustainable.
Earlier, a special prayer was offered for Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman, his family and 21 August victims.
Committee members – Disaster Management and Relief State Minister Enamur
Rahman, Md Aftab Uddin Sarkar, Mir Mostak Ahmed Robi, Jewel Areng, Mujibur
Rahman Chowdhury, Masud Uddin Chowdhury and Kazi Kaniz Sultana, among others,
were present in the meeting.
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