CHATTOGRAM, April 24, 2022 (BSS) – A total of 1,216 marginal poor, landless and homeless families of Chattogram district are expected to get homes from the government before the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr as Prime Minister’s Eid gift.
 
These semi-pucca tin-shed houses, which are likely to be handed over to them before the Eid-ul-Fitr, will add an extra dimension to the joy of these landless and homeless people of the district, official sources said here today.

Mohammad Mominur Rahman, Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Chattogram at a press briefing at DC’s conference room here said keys of those houses would be handed over to those families through a function on April 26.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to join the function through a video conference from her official Ganabhaban residence.

According to the official sources, each of the houses has been constructed in the third phase under the Asrayan-2 project. In this phase, more than 1,216 families will get houses as the gift from the government in 14 upazila of the district.

The Deputy Commissioner further said that in the first phase, 1,444 landless and homeless families of the district like the rest of the country were provided houses with two Shatak of land with full government funding.  

 In the second phase, 649 families in Chattogram district were provided houses with two Shatak of land with full government funding. Various non-government organizations and individuals have now come forward to join this unique initiative of the Prime Minister, sources said.