Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs Minister Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing on Saturday distributed 55 tonnes of Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) rice on behalf of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as Eid gift at Bandarban Sadar upazila to 5,441 underprivileged families.
He distributed 10 kgs of rice to each of the 820 underprivileged families at Kuhalang Union Parishad and 4,621 families of ward no 9 under Bandarban Sadar municipality, said a press release.
The minister instructed the representatives of the government to provide all kinds of facilities for the landless and homeless, to provide homes, hunger-free, poverty-free, happy and prosperous Bangladesh.
He said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government belongs to the people of the country and she would not leave any people of the country be homeless.
At that time, among others, the Chairman of Bandarban Sadar Union Parishad Mongpu Marma Hossain was present.
