DHAKA, April 30, 2020 (BSS) – Awami League General Secretary Obaidul
Quader today said the government will arrange accommodation for all homeless
people in the country.
“By preparing a list of the homeless people in coordination with the local
administrations, housing will be ensued for them,” he told a relief
distribution programme at the AL president’s Dhanmondi political office here
through a videoconference from his official residence.
Quader, also road transport and bridges minister, said the AL leaders have
been instructed to prepare the list of homeless people in coordination with
the local administrations.
“As per the instruction of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, relief goods must
be reached to the homeless people,” he said.
About the opening of RMG factories amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis, the
AL general secretary said the garment factories in Dhaka and adjacent areas
were opened in a limited scale in fear of losing global RMG market.
He said the factory owners have been asked to engage in work the RMG
workers, who are staying in Dhaka, in their factories.
“The factory owners also agreed to this. But a huge number of workers are
now entering Dhaka in fear of losing their jobs,” Quader said, calling upon
the owners to keep their pledges and not to terminate any worker during the
COVID-19 crisis.
“We must tackle the coronavirus crisis under the leadership of Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina,” he said.
AL relief and social welfare sub-committee arranged the relief
distribution programme.
Later, Quader distributed 2,200 packets of food items among the poor and
destitute people through his representatives.
AL advisory council member AKM Rahmatullah, its presidium member Abdur
Rahman, organising secretaries Mirza Azam and SM Kamal Hossain, relief and
social welfare secretary Sujit Roy Nandi, deputy office secretary Sayeem
Khan, Swechchhasebak League president Nirmal Ranjan Guha and its general
secretary Afzalur Rahman Babu, and Jatiya Sramik League president Fazlul
Haque Minto were, among others, present.