Disaster Management and Relief Ministry provided jobs to 3.87 crore people in the last 10 years under its social safety net programmes.
“The government has also provided support to women empowerment and raised their financial capacity,” Deputy Principal Information Officer Dewan Omar Faruque told BSS on Thursday.
He said during the period rural poverty was reduced as 78 lakh rural unemployed people were provided job under the 80-day Employment Generation Programme for the Poorest (EGPP).
According to the ministry, the government implemented various projects worth Taka 4,166.33 crore along with distributing 20.31 lkah tonnes of food grains among 1.62 crore rural workers under Kabikhah/Kabita programmes for construction and repairing of rural roads.
It said in the last 10 years, the government implemented various projects at a cost of Taka 4,325.31 crore and 20.54 lakh tonnes of food grains engaging 1 crore 74 lakh 30 thousand rural workers under Test Relief (TR) aimed at ensuring rural infrastructure sustainable.
Due to the effective humanitarian assistance programmes taken by the present government, no people suffered from food crisis.
