Staff Reporter, (Kishoreganj) :
As part of the government ‘s target to ensure housing for the landless and homeless people, the Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina was handing over at least 26,299 house to landless and homeless families under the 3rd phase of Ashrayan -2 project on Thursday.
In Kishoreganj, Some 152 landless and homeless families in Kishoreganj were get new houses as gifts from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina under the third phase of the Ashrayan Project on Thursday.
Of the total, construction works of 673 houses have been completed. The rest of the 486 houses handed over to the beneficiary families on April. The PM’s gifted house distribution programme at katiadi upazila of Kishoreganj on Thursday. Former IGP & Sr.Secretary Noor Mohammad MP attended as chief guest while DC in Kishoreganj Mohammad Shamim Alam presided over. ADC (Revenue) Md.Nuruzzaman, Upazila chairman, UNO and others dignified persons were also present.
Later,”Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has launch the distribution of the houses with land ownership documents and keys to the beneficiary families through a videoconferencing from Ganabhaban on Thursday.
Ramgarh (Khagrachhari) Correspondent adds: Landless, homeless, helpless people of the extremely poor hill communities have now got a semi-furnished house through the Prime Minister’s special shelter project, became the record owner of the land. These neglected communities of remote hills never dreamed of such an achievement. Like other places in the three hill districts, about 200 homeless and landless minorities in the remote-remote areas of Ramgarh in Khagrachhari are overjoyed to get free semi-furnished houses and space in the family shelter project. On Wednesday (July 21) 78 more minority ethnic group families got this house and place of shelter in the upazila.
A 400 square feet two-room greenhouse with red bark and yellow walls has been built on the hill slope of Dak Banglapara of Patachhara Union, Ward No. 2 of the upazila. The colorful houses lined up on the lap of the green hills of the remote Dakbangla area, about 11 km from the upazila headquarters, look like a picture painted by an artist from a distance.
These 8 houses along with the last 78 houses of the upazila will be handed over on Wednesday. 8 landless poor Tripura minority families will own these houses with space. Chandra Rani Tripura, a refugee who returned to India in the 1997, was overjoyed to find such a beautiful house. He lives with his wife and two small sons in a bamboo-thatched hut on the slope of another hill. Here, the family of jhum workers spent their days soaking wet in rainwater, hot summer sun and Konkan cold in winter. A piece of land and a beautiful semi-furnished house in the dream of the Asyaran project will eliminate their previous costs. Get a permanent address.
Old lady Chandra Rani said, at least now I can live safely in a safe house of my own by providing food for my mouth by farming or daily labour.
