UNB, Dhaka :
The government has chalked out a long-term Social Safety Net Strategy covering the people of all ages, including children, women and elderly ones, to ensure social safety net programmes and thus alleviate poverty further.
A total of 3.57 crore people are expected to be benefited from the social safety net programmes.
The draft of the Strategy Paper was placed before the government by the Planning Commission on Wednesday for finalisation.
General Economics Division (GED) member of the Planning Commission Prof Dr Shamsul Alam presented the Strategy Paper to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at a meeting on Finalising the National Social Safety Net Strategy Paper at her office.
PM’s press secretary AKM Shameem Chowdhuri briefed reporters after the meeting.
The draft strategy, prepared by the GED, as it was proposed in the sixth-five year plan (2011-2015), contains a proposal for its execution in three phases.
Speaking at the meeting, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stressed the importance
of finalising a well-thought-out strategy for quick poverty alleviation and human resources development.
Hasina said, her present government has attached utmost importance to ensuring the social safety of people, particularly the poor, to make the country free from poverty.
The main vision of the strategy is to build a social safety measure for all citizens by creating employment opportunities, poverty alleviation, reducing discrepancies, development of human resources and finally boosting the country’s economic growth.
The first phase of the strategy will be implemented during 2015 to 2020, while the second phase during 2021 to 2026 and the final phase from 2026 onwards.
Finance Minister AMA Muhith, Social Welfare Minister Syed Mohsin Ali, Land Minister Shamsur Rahman Sharif, PM’s Economic Advisor Dr Moshiur Rahman, Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan and secretaries concerned were present.
Sheikh Hasina said Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had introduced social safety net programmes in Bangladesh after the war of liberation in light of the experience of the Nordic countries.
The government has chalked out a long-term Social Safety Net Strategy covering the people of all ages, including children, women and elderly ones, to ensure social safety net programmes and thus alleviate poverty further.
A total of 3.57 crore people are expected to be benefited from the social safety net programmes.
The draft of the Strategy Paper was placed before the government by the Planning Commission on Wednesday for finalisation.
General Economics Division (GED) member of the Planning Commission Prof Dr Shamsul Alam presented the Strategy Paper to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at a meeting on Finalising the National Social Safety Net Strategy Paper at her office.
PM’s press secretary AKM Shameem Chowdhuri briefed reporters after the meeting.
The draft strategy, prepared by the GED, as it was proposed in the sixth-five year plan (2011-2015), contains a proposal for its execution in three phases.
Speaking at the meeting, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stressed the importance
of finalising a well-thought-out strategy for quick poverty alleviation and human resources development.
Hasina said, her present government has attached utmost importance to ensuring the social safety of people, particularly the poor, to make the country free from poverty.
The main vision of the strategy is to build a social safety measure for all citizens by creating employment opportunities, poverty alleviation, reducing discrepancies, development of human resources and finally boosting the country’s economic growth.
The first phase of the strategy will be implemented during 2015 to 2020, while the second phase during 2021 to 2026 and the final phase from 2026 onwards.
Finance Minister AMA Muhith, Social Welfare Minister Syed Mohsin Ali, Land Minister Shamsur Rahman Sharif, PM’s Economic Advisor Dr Moshiur Rahman, Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan and secretaries concerned were present.
Sheikh Hasina said Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had introduced social safety net programmes in Bangladesh after the war of liberation in light of the experience of the Nordic countries.
