RAJSHAHI, March 18, 2020 (BSS) – Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) will
construct houses for 300 marginal families under a project taken for rural
people’s welfare in Mujib year declared by the government on the birth
centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
RCC Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton said at a function around three hundreds
poor people will get easy term loan to build houses under the ‘Livelihoods
Improvement of Urban Poor Communities (LIUPC) Project with support of
Community Housing Development Fund (CHDF).
As a part of it, Liton distributed housing loan and inaugurated
construction work of one of such houses in the function held in Paba Natun
Sawtalpara area here yesterday afternoon as the chief guest.
On the occasion, he also assured of providing houses to 50 more less-
income families with his personal initiative in the city this year to mark
the Mujib Borsho.
Chaired by RCC Chief Executive Officer Dr Sharif Uddin, the function was
addressed, among others, by Panel Mayors Shariful Islam and Tahera Khatun,
Secretary Abu Hayat Rahmatullah, Executive Engineer Nur Islam and Chief
Community Development Officer Azizur Rahman.
Liton said proper housing for poor rural people has become a prerequisite
to achieve sustainable development goals (SDG-11), and ensure planned
urbanisation and continued economic progress of the city.
He said the city corporation will take initiatives to build affordable
houses by adopting a need-based coordinated plan to tackle the housing
crisis.
Liton focused on stronger collaboration between the government and non-
government organisations, and involving public representatives and other
relevant stakeholders to promote plans for people living in urban poor areas.
The meeting was told that the city corporation has started implementing the
LIUPC project in cooperation with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
in order to achieving long-term sustainable growth by eradicating urban
poverty and Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
The project has been designed to reach initially the unserved and
underserved urban population in the city and to promote livelihoods and
living conditions of 1.80 lakh poor people living in urban areas.
Meanwhile, 261 slum dwellers are living in brick-built houses at present
driving out their long-lasting living life in thatched or mud-houses as they
got community housing in the city.
Earlier, each of the beneficiaries having land but not house were given
loan worth Taka two lakh for the house building purposes.
They had just moved into their new houses constructed with support from
CHDF and the LIUPC Project.