Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam said in Mymensing on Saturday the government has allocated Taka 54 thousand crore under social safety programme with a view to build a poverty free middle-income country by 2021.
Over the years, he said, percentage of poverty has reduced and living standard of poor and distressed people has improved in the country.
“The government has fixed a target to alleviate poverty at zero level by 2030,” he told the inaugural function of a workshop on “Social safety programme for alleviating poverty” at a local hotel organized by the cabinet division in cooperation with Mymensingh Division.
Additional Secretary at the Cabinet Division Md. Abdul Wadud and its Joint Secretary Saidur Rahman spoke with Mymensingh Divisional Commissioner GM Saleh Uddin in the chair.
Shafiul Alam urged the concerned field level officers to work sincerely to make the programme success for socio-economic development and welfare of underprivileged section of the society .
Additional secretaries, joint secretaries and high officials of the
concerned ministries, additional divisional commissioners, DCs, UNOs, Zila parisad chairmen, upazila chairmen, mayors and other district level officers took part in the workshop.
