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CUMILLA, July 15, 2022 (BSS) - Some 584 landless and homeless families will 
get new houses as gift from the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina under the third 
phase of the Ashrayan Project in the district.

Construction works of the houses have been completed which will be handed 
over to the beneficiary families by this month.

"Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will launch the distribution of the houses with 
land ownership documents and keys to the beneficiary families through a 
videoconferencing from her Ganabhaban residence on July, 21, 2022," Deputy 
Commissioner (DC) Mohammad Kamrul Hasan told BSS.

Each of the semi pucca tin-shed houses was built at a cost of Taka 1.50 lakh. 
All preparations have already been completed in this regard.

The DC also informed that a total of 2,326 houses have already been 
distributed among the beneficiaries in three phases in the district. 

In the first phase, a total of 595 houses were handed over to the same number 
of homeless families in the district while 1,265 homeless and landless 
received houses in the second phase and 466 got in the third phase, he added.