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No one will remain homeless in Mujib Year: Enamur
DHAKA, Jan 7, 2021 (BSS) – State Minister for Disaster Management
and Relief Dr. Md. Enamur Rahman today said no one will remain
homeless in Mujib Year and 50 years of the country’s independence.
The government has constructed nine lakh houses across the country
through the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief and has been
distributing them among the homeless families.
The state minister said this while laying the foundation stone of
the relief warehouse cum disaster management information centre at
Naogaon district, said a press release.
Enamur said, a total of 66 such warehouses cum information centers
are being set up to provide quick relief assistance across the country
on an emergency basis in times of various disasters.
If there is stock of relief materials in these warehouses at the
district level, emergency relief assistance can be delivered to all
the upazilas of the district within a short time, he added.
He further said that the government has plans to set up relief
warehouses cum information centers in 500 more upazilas under this
project and soon initiatives will be taken to implement this plan.
Due to the competent responsibilities of the officials of the
Ministry of Disaster Management and all the departments under it, this
ministry has come to be known as a competent ministry, he added.
Disaster Management and Relief Secretary Md. Mohsin, Deputy
Commissioner Harun-ur-Rashid and government officials were present on
the occasion.
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