GAIBANDHA, NOV 04, 2019 (BSS) – Government’s special 40-day employment
generation programme for the hardcore and the seasonal unemployed people has
begun in Gobindaganj upazila in the district on Sunday.
The basic objective of the programme is to assist the poor, particularly
the day and farm labourers of the district, for overcoming their poverty and
job crisis during the lean period.
Upazila Relief and Rehabilitation office sources said Taka four crore, 12
lakh and 56 thousand.
have been sanctioned for the 5157 workers to implement different
development projects in the rural areas of all 17 unions of the upazila.
The project works include construction and reconstruction of worst roads,
bridges and culverts, earth filling and excavation and re-excavation of
derelict ponds and canals and removing water hyacinth from different water
bodies, sources said.
Each workers would get TK 200 per day as wage from the programme that
would continue till starting the plantation of Boro paddy , sources said.
Local Lawmaker Engineer Monowar Hossain Chowdhury inaugurated the
programme.
by cutting earth in the premises of Kamardaha union parishad (UP) as chief
guest.
Upazila Chairman Abdul Latif Prodhan, Upazila Nirbahi Officer Ramkrishna
Barman, Upazila Project Implementation Officer Jahirul Islam and UP chairman
Shariful Islam Ratan , among others were present on the occasion.