Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hand over another batch of 18,566 houses among the homeless and landless families across the country on Tuesday.
This is being done under the government’s flagship housing programme, Ashrayan-2 Project, aiming to ensure housing for all.
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The prime minister will handover the homes and ownership documents at 11am on Tuesday via videoconference from her official residence Ganabhaban, connecting to Kaliganj upazila of Lalmonirhat, Eidgaon upazila of Cox’s Bazar, and Char Fashion upazila of Bhola.
In addition to distributing houses, she will declare 70 more upazilas, including all upazilas of 26 districts, free from landlessness and homelessness people.
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On Tuesday, the prime minister will distribute 1,282 houses in Lalmonirhat, 261 in Cox’s Bazar, and 1,234 in Bhola districts.
With these new declarations, the total number of landless and homeless-free districts will reach 58, and the number of upazilas will rise to 464 across the country.
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Previously, the prime minister distributed 63,999 houses in the first phase, 53,330 in the second phase, 59,133 in the third phase, and 39,365 in the fourth phase of the Ashrayan-2 Prakalpa across the country.
Under the project, each landless and homeless family is provided with a semi-pucca house on two decimals of land, with ownership jointly granted to both husband and wife. Each house consists of two bedrooms, a kitchen, a toilet, and a veranda.
Cox’s Bazar Deputy Commissioner Muhammad Shahin Imran said that 4,666 houses had been distributed in the district under the Ashrayan Prakalpa earlier, with an additional 261 houses to be distributed tomorrow.
“Along with handing over these 261 houses, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will declare Cox’s Bazar as a homeless and landless-free district tomorrow,” he said.
Shahin highlighted that the Ashrayan project not only provides shelter but also creates employment opportunities, fostering self-reliance among the beneficiaries.
Project details said that 266,012 landless and homeless families were rehabilitated in the first, second, third, fourth, and the first stage of the fifth phases of Ashrayan Project-2.
On Tuesday , an additional 18,566 families will be rehabilitated in the second stage of the fifth phase.
The rehabilitation programme for homeless people was initially introduced by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1972.
Following that PM Hasina initiated the Ashrayan project in 1997 to provide ownership of houses and lands to homeless and landless people.
Since its inception, the Ashrayan project has rehabilitated a total of 771,301 families, benefiting an estimated 3,856,505 individuals. Across all programmes, 4,340,000 people from 867,904 families have been rehabilitated, including 2,910,265 people from 582,053 families under the Ashrayan Project.