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Ashrayan to Rehabilitate 57,000 Landless, Homeless Families

Over 57,000 landless, homeless and displaced families will be rehabilitated across the country under Ashrayan Prakalpa, one of the 10 special initiatives of the Prime Minister.

These families will be rehabilitated under Ashran-2 (July 2010-June 2022) which aims to rehabilitate 2,50,000 landless, homeless, and displaced families at a cost of Tk 4,840.28 crore, Project Director Ashrayan Prakalpa Md Mahbub Hossain told BSS here today.

Of the 250,000 families, Ashrayan has already rehabilitated1,92,277 landless and homeless families across the country from July 2010 to June 2019, he said, adding that 48,500 landless and homeless families have been rehabilitated in barracks while 1,43,777 families having own land (1-10 decimal) but no capacity for construction of house in semi-barracks, corrugated Iron sheet barracks and specially designed houses.

Hossain said that the project calls for the building of coastal barracks, semi-barracks for other areas, corrugated iron sheet barracks for char areas and specially designed tribal houses in accordance with their culture and customs.

The government has also built 139 five-story buildings at Khurushkul in Cox's Bazar for 4,409 families, who were climate refugees, according to the project details.

The purpose of the project is to eliminate poverty by providing land, housing, training, loan, healthcare, family planning, income-generating activities, drinking water supply, electricity supply, improvement of the communication system and plantation facilities for people who were affected by the cyclone, flood, river erosion, and natural disasters.

The adult male-female members of the rehabilitated families are getting training on increasing awareness on various issues, expertise, and human resource development to enable them becoming engaged in income-generation works, the project detail said.

The project director, however, said the government has undertaken the project to give the homeless people a meaningful life through providing shelter and assistance for making them self-reliant.

He said the activities of the project will be accelerated further in the future to alleviate poverty for fulfilling the ‘Vision 2021’ and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.

As part of the project, the local government division initiated extensive social security-net programs to empower the rehabilitated residents to become self-reliant through government support, preparation, and help. 

Source: BSS


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