<i>Luck smiles on 30 homeless families in Gaibandha</i>
A family at a newly built house at the cluster village set up for the homeless at Manduar in Sadullapur upazila of Gaibandha.Photo: STAR
Luck has smiled on 30 landless families at Manduyer village in Sadullapur upazila. Dwellings were handed over to those homeless people, most of them erosion victims, last week. The houses were built on government khas land under cluster village project at a cost of Tk 41.25lakh, funded by a Japanese donor agency. Expressing pleasure, freedom fighter Shafiuzzaman, 67, of the village, said “I felt really happy as I got a house at the end of the life”. Widow Rahela Bewa, 60, said “My dream came true at long last”. Each home consisted with a bedroom, a kitchen and a toilet built at a cost of over Tk 1.37 lakh on a three decimal land, said assistant commissioner (land) Azharul Islam. An office-cum-community centre has also been constructed there spending over Tk 7.18 lakh to look after the families. In addition, the shelterless people got a portion of the Ghagot River for fish cultivation, said Rokeya Begum, member of Bongram union parishad. More than 14 such cluster villages have been set up across the country, said upazila nirbahi officer Golam Mowla.
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