PM declares Lalmonirhat as landless, homeless-free district Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday handed over 1,623 houses to landless and homeless families here as the gift of upcoming Eid-ul-Adha under the second stage of the fifth phase of Ashrayan-2 Prakalpa and declared the district free of landless and homeless families. The premier handed over the homes along with ownership documents to the beneficiaries while she was distributing 18,566 houses among homeless and landless families across the country this morning through videoconferencing from her official residence Ganabhaban in Dhaka, connecting to Kaliganj upazila of Lalmonirhat, Eidgaon upazila of Cox's Bazar and Char Fashion upazila of Bhola, reports BSS. Former minister Nuruzzaman Ahmed, MP, Advocate Motiar Rahman, MP, Rangpur Divisional Commissioner Md Zakir Hossain, Lalmonirhat Deputy Commissioner (DC) Mohammad Ullah and Awami League (AL) Central Working Committee Member Advocate Safura Begum were present at the Lamonirhat end.
In addition to distributing houses, Sheikh Hasina declared 70 more upazilas, including all upazilas of 26 districts, free of landlessness and homelessness people. With these new declarations, the total number of landless and homeless-free districts stood at 58 while the number of upazilas rose to 464 across the country. Through the videoconferencing, the prime minister today distributed 1,623 houses in Lalmonirhat, 261 in Cox's Bazar and 1,234 in Bhola districts under her Ashrayan-2 Pra.
