85 Projects in 41 Districts

Over 3,000 destitute, landless families being rehabilitated

6 March 2010, 18:00 PM

BSS, Rangpur

Labourers working under a project at Khegraghat cluster village in Dema union of Bagerhat district. The government has taken 85 such projects to provide employment opportunity to a large number of destitute and landless people in 66 upazilas of 41 districts.Photo: STAR

More than 3,000 destitute and landless families are being rehabilitated under 85 projects of 66 upazilas in 41 districts. Officials said they will be made economically self-reliant under the Prime Minister's Priority Programme of 'Guchhagram Prokalpo' (cluster village) titled "Climate Victim Rehabilitation Project (CVRP)" at a cost of Tk 40.5crore. At least 33 cluster villages are being constructed in 25 upazilas of 13 northern districts and the rest in other parts of the country under the CVRP project. Regional Director of the CVRP (Guchhagram) Minu Sheel told the news agency recently that 40 out of 120 beneficiary families were provided with house each with a latrine and a tubewell in Saddyapuskuruni Guchhagram project in Ramjiban village under Sadar upazila of Rangpur last month. "Forty tin-shed houses were handed over in January to 40 families in Saddyapuskuruni Guchhagram project and the rest 80 houses will be handed over soon after completion at a cost of Tk 52 lakh among more 80 families," she added. Each cluster village contains a multipurpose community hall where trainings on various income-generating trades like rearing poultry birds, animal husbandry, cottage and handloom industries and handicrafts will be given to the beneficiaries, she said. "Each beneficiary family is being provided with a house on 3.5 to eight decimals of land throughout the country with sanitation, pure drinking water and other facilities with a view to making them economically self-reliant," Minu Sheel said. For handing over the houses among the beneficiaries, a simple ceremony was organised by Sadar upazila land office at Saddyapuskuruni Guchhagram in village Ramjiban last month with UNO of Sadar upazila Mostain Billah in the chair. Later, the keys of the newly built houses were handed over to each of the 40 beneficiary families in the cluster village, where more 80 such houses are being built on seven acres of land.