Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said the government has been working to ensure civic amenities for all the rural people throughout the country.

“We’ll bring every village under the coverage of civic amenities and the people of every village will enjoy the civic amenities,”  she said.

The premier said this while handing over 18,566 more houses  among the homeless and landless families across the country under Ashrayan-2 project on Tuesday, five days before the Eid-ul Azha.

She opened the distribution of the houses alongwith ownership documents through a videoconference from her official residence Ganabhaban, connecting to Kaliganj upazila of Lalmonirhat, Eidgaon upazila of Cox’s Bazar, and Char Fashion upazila of Bhola.

PM Hasina provides 18,566 more houses for the homeless under Ashrayan-2 project

On behalf of Sheikh Hasina, the public representatives and field-administration handed over the houses constructed under the government’s flagship housing programme, Ashrayan-2 Project, aiming to ensure housing for all.

Besides, the PM declared 70 more upazilas, including all upazilas of 26 districts, free from landlessness and homelessness people.

With this declaration, the total number of landless and homeless-free districts has reached 58 and the number of landless and homeless-free Upazilas has gone up to 464 across the country.