Prioritise poverty alleviation
A study published in The Daily Star recently reveals that about 23 percent rural people use unhygienic toilets while 10 percent villagers defecate in the open in Bangladesh. Moreover, hygienic sanitary latrine is not found in most of the slums. We will have mega projects in the city costing billions of taka, and at the same time poor people will be deprived of their basic needs. The government should give priority to poverty alleviation.
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