LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Engineer
Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Sunday said the government is implementing various programmes to ensure better civic amenities for improving living standard of rural people.
“We are developing infrastructural facilities alongside providing health and educational opportunities to improve living standard of rural people,” he told a function in Bhuangamari upazila parishad at Kurigram district, an official release said.
At the function, the minister inaugurated the new electronic method for distributing money among the beneficiaries under the Income Support for the Poorest Project (ISPP).
Mosharraf said the government has been successful in eradicating “Monga”
completely from the northern region of the country. “Now Bangladesh is coming
out from the vicious cycle of poverty as the present government is
relentlessly working under far-sighted and visionary leadership of Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina,” he added.
The main objective of the ISPP programme, jointly funded by the Local
Government Division and the World Bank, is to ensure cognitive development
for under-five children and provide healthcare facilities to pregnant
mothers.
Local lawmaker AKM Mostafizur Rahman, Secretary of Local Government
Division Abdul Malek, representatives of the World Bank and officials of
local administration, among others, addressed the function with Deputy
Commissioner Md Nurul Amin in the chair.
