Delta Plan to Ensure Country’s Economic Growth, Food, Water Security: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Wednesday that the Delta Plan 2100 will ensure the country's economic growth, water and food security, as well as environmental stability, will overcome various challenges over the long term, in particular the adverse impact of climate change, reports media.

“Vision of the Delta Plan-2100 is to build a prosperous Bangladesh through adopting compact, comprehensive and effective strategies befitting with the changes of time,” she said.

The Premier made the remarks in the Jatiya Sangsad while replying to a tabled question from the opposition lawmaker Md Mashiur Rahman Ranga of Rangpur-1.

Mentioning this present government of the Awami League as a government for the development of the country, she said that the 100-year long Delta Plan has been prepared for the long-term and sustainable development of the country, which also focused on building the country as a prosperous one in 2041.

Sheikh Hasina said the Delta Plan-2100 would be used for river dredging, river navigability, land raise and cultivation, housing, agriculture and industrialization etc.

She said that the Delta Plan-2100, which was approved by the National Economic Council (NEC) on 4 September 2018, had three higher-level national objectives and six specific delta goals.

Higher-level three goals are to eliminate extreme poverty by 2030, to become a higher middle-income nation by 2030, and to become a prosperous nation by 2041, she added.

The Prime Minister said a high-level committee named “Delta Governance Council” has already been formed to provide political decision and direction for its overall implementation.

She went on saying the Delta Plan-2100 would be implemented through 17 five year plans, along with 80 projects to be implemented by 2030 involving an estimated cost of Taka 2,978 billion which is 2.5 per cent of the country’s GDP.

Sheikh Hasina said the process of formulating a policy related to Delta Fund Structure and its operation is underway.