State minister for textiles and jute Md. Shariful Alam spoke at the Town Hall's Shaheed M. Shamsul Haque Open Stage in the city. Photo: BSS

MYMENSINGH, May 24, 2026 (BSS) - State minister for textiles and jute Md. Shariful Alam today said 40 lakh families will get family card in the next fiscal year.

"Many of you know that within nine days of being elected, we waived the agricultural loans of the farmers of this country, especially the toiling farmers. Each family is being given a family card," he said while speaking as the chief guest at a tin (corrugated iron (CI) sheets) distribution ceremony for 669 families held at the Town Hall's Shaheed M. Shamsul Haque Open Stage in the city.

The state minister said, "Since independence, if we look back, many governments have come to power. But we haven't seen previous governments take very effective steps for the welfare of marginal, ordinary, toiling, working-class people. We will focus more on them."

The tin was distributed free of cost to these low-income families living in slum areas, an initiative of the Mymensingh City Corporation (MCC).

MCC Administrator Md. Rukunuzzaman Rokon informed that this initiative has been taken to develop marginal communities into prosperous ones.

The event was presided over by City Corporation Administrator Md. Rukunuzzaman Rokon while Sadar constituency Member of Parliament Abu Wahab Akanda Wahid, Muktagacha constituency Member of Parliament Mohammad Zakir Hossain, Mymensingh District Council Administrator Syed Emran Saleh Prince, and City Corporation Acting Chief Executive Officer Sumna Al Majid, among others, were present