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TIPU-HOUSES-HOMELESS (with picture)
Nobody would remain homeless: Commerce Minister
RANGPUR, Nov 22, 2020 (BSS) – Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi here today said no one in the country will remain homeless as pledged by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
“The government is building houses for landless and homeless people in implementation of the promise of the Prime Minister in celebrations of the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the Mujib Year,” he said.
The minister said this after laying the foundation stone to launch construction of a three-storey flood shelter being built, spending Taka 3.09 crore, at Shibdev Char Bilateral High School in Pirgachha upazila of Rangpur as the chief guest.
The Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief is extending financial assistance under the ‘Construction of Flood Shelters in the Flood-Prone and River Erosion Areas (Phase-3)’ project for construction of the flood shelter.
Tipu Munshi said the houses being built under the project would be handed over to homeless people who would get the opportunity to live in those houses permanently.
“Besides, disaster resilient flood shelters are being constructed in flood prone and river erosion areas to provide shelters to flood and erosion affected people during floods and natural disasters,” he said.
Deputy Commissioner Md. Asib Ahsan, Pirgachha upazila chairman Shah Md. Mahbubar Rahman, Executive Engineer of LGED Rezaul Haque, Upazila Nirbahi Officer Jasmine Prodhan, Upazila Engineer Monirul Islam, among others, were present.
Earlier, the minister inaugurated construction work of a 54-meter bridge spending Taka 3.34 crore at Kalidas Ghat on the Pirgachha-Paotana road in Pirgachha upazila and laid a foundation stone there for construction of another flood shelter costing Taka 3.09 crore.
He also visited the site of construction of Rahamat Char Guchchhogram (Cluster Village) in Tambulpur union of the upazila and laid the foundation stone there to launch its construction.
Besides, Tipu Munshi visited graves of Shahidul Islam, father of General Secretary of Pirgachha Upazila Awami League (AL) Abdullah Al Mahmud Milon, local AL leaders Rashidul Islam and Hasan Alo and Mozammel Haque, father of vice chairman of Pirgachha upazila parishad Ariful Haque Liton and offered Fateha.
BSS/MI/FI/ 1850 hrs