Govt undertakes Tk 227.97cr project for FF’s housing

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BSS, Sangsad Bhaban :
The government has undertaken a project to construct houses for landless and insolvent Freedom Fighters (FFs) across the country aimed at rehabilitating the valiant sons of the soil.
“As per the commitment of the Prime Minister for welfare of the FFs, this important project is being implemented at 484 upazilas with a provision for constructing 2,971 houses,” Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque told the parliament while replying to a question from treasury bench member M Abdul Wadud today.
He said this important project for the FFs started in July, 2012, and would be completed in June 2016. At least 303 houses were already constructed, while constriction of 794 houses is continuing, he informed the House.
The minister said that the government has floated tender for construction of 450 houses for the landless and insolvent Freedom Fighters. “The government is also considering construction of 10,000 more houses for the FFs in the next Fiscal Year,” he added.
Besides, the government directed the authorities concerned to form committees in all districts for allotting khas land at the upazila level among the landless Freedom Fighters across country, the minister also said.
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