BSS-27 Govt implements huge development works in N-region: Menon

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Govt implements huge development works in N-region: Menon

GAIBANDHA, Nov 2, 2018 (BSS)- Social Welfare Minister Rashed Khan Menon
today said the government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina implemented
huge development works in the northern region of the country to take it
ahead.

“For taking pragmatic measures, the so-called monga, poverty and job crisis
like situation, which seen every year at the Bangla months of Ashwin and
Kartik, has already disappeared from the region forever,” he said.

Menon made the comments while addressing a view-exchange meeting at the
conference room of the Circuit House here this afternoon as the chief guest
with the officials of Department of Social Services of Rangpur, Nilphamari,
Kurigram, Lalmonirhat and Gaibandha districts.

Deputy Commissioner Sebastin Rema and Police Super Engineer Abdul Mannan
Miah addressed the meeting as special guests with Deputy Director (DD) of the
department M Emdadul Haque Pramanik in the chair.

“The number of the beneficiary had increased during the tenure of the
government last 10 years,” he said, adding that the number was only three
lakh in 1996 but it stood to 40 lakh in 2018.

The government took initiatives for the rehabilitation of Hizras and
beggars in the society and the Hizras had been included as voters for the
first time, the minister mentioned.

It is our duty to bring the backward people of the region under the
mainstream of the development through providing them with need base services,
he said.

Menon urged the officials to work dedicatedly and sincerely in a bid to
build a happy and prosperous northern region through implementing social
safety net programmes.

DD Abdur Razzak from Rangpur, DD Imam Hashim from Nilphamari, DD SM
Jobaidul Islam from Kurigram and DD Mosarrof Hossain from Lalmonirhat
districts and other officials participated in the meeting.

BSS/CORR/SSS/1933 hrs