Over 53,340 homeless and landless families are going to receive well-built homes on Sunday as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s focus on addressing the accommodation problem of the homeless continues even during the pandemic. These families will be provided with modern homes and land ownership documents across the country under Ashrayan-2 project on the day. Read:Ashrayan-2: Over 53,000 houses set to be distributed in June The Prime Minister will inaugurate the second-phase distribution of semi-pucca houses in the Mujib Year through a videoconference from Ganobhaban. “The houses will be given to 53,340 more homeless and landless families on June 20 next (Sunday),” said PM’s Principal Secretary Dr Ahmad Kaikaus at a press conference in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on Thursday. The joint ownership documents of the two-decimal homes along with a tin-roofed pucca dwelling will be given to both the husband and wife of a family ensuring gender equality, he said. Besides, 100,000 more houses will be given by December next as part of the government’s move to rehabilitate the country’s homeless people in the Mujib Year, said Dr Kaikaus. Read:Ashrayan project: 50,000 more houses for homeless in April On January 23 last, 70,000 such houses along with documents were given to homeless and landless people in the first phase of the project in line with the Prime Minister’s announcement that there would be no homeless and landless people in Bangladesh, Dr Kaikaus said. He said it is Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s unique model in the world to rehabilitate homeless people. The Principal Secretary said this is how each family is getting overall property worth Tk 2.6 lakh. Mentioning that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had undertaken the Ashrayan project in 1997, Dr Kaikaus said a total of 373,562 houses have so far been given to homeless and landless families under the Ashrayan project run by the PMO. Read: Hasina inaugurates home distribution under Ashrayan-2 Project On Sunday next, the highest 12,436 houses will be given in Rangpur division, while 10,547 in Chattogram, 7,630 in Dhaka, 7,172 in Rajshahi, 37,153 in Barishal, 911 in Khulna, 2512 in Mymensingh and 1979 in Sylhet divisions. According to the lists prepared under the Ashrayan project, the number of homeless and landless families (under class-K) is 293,361 in the country, while that of just-homeless families (under class-Kha) is 592,261.