SANGSAD BHABAN, June 6, 2024 (BSS) - A total of 5,78,312 landless and
homeless families have been rehabilitated under the Ashrayan and Guchchhogram
projects since 1997, finance minister AH Mahmood Ali told the Jatiya Sangsad
today.
 
Placing the national budget for fiscal year 2024-25 (FY25) in Jatiya Sangsad,
Ali said the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief has been working
relentlessly to fulfill the Prime Minister's pledge-'Not a single person of
the country will remain homeless in the Mujib Year.

Of the total landless and homeless people, 1,59,848 families have been housed
in barracks, 1,53,853 families by constructing houses on their own land, 640
families by constructing multi-storey buildings in the Khurushkul Special
Shelter Project and 600 ethnic-minority-families have been housed in
specially designed houses.

Besides these, 1,000 families affected by cyclone Amphan and 100 families
affected by river erosion have also been provided with houses, he further
said.

"This initiative of the Prime Minister to alleviate the poverty of the
landless, homeless, uprooted and helpless people by ensuring housing
facilities has come to be known as the 'Sheikh Hasina Model of Inclusive
Development'," the finance minister added.