The government will hand over houses to 20,000 homeless people in the country in June next in the rest of the 5th phase under the Ashrayan-2 project.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Tuesday approved a proposal to follow the Direct Procurement Method (DPM) to hold the formal handover operations programme for rehabilitating the landless and homeless people under the Ashrayan-2 project.
Finance Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali presided over the 9th meeting of the CCEA this year held on Tuesday at the Cabinet Division conference room at Bangladesh Secretariat, reports BSS.
Briefing reporters after the meeting, Cabinet Division Secretary (Coordination and Reforms) Md Mahmudul Hossain informed that so far some 24,520 landless and homeless people have already been handed over houses under the initiative.
He informed that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is likely to inaugurate the handing over of the houses.
