CHATTOGRAM, July 20 (BSS): Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud said on Saturday the country is now hunger-free and the poverty rate will reduce to 10 percent before the next parliament election.
"Bangabandhu's daughter Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina declared building a hunger- and poverty-free Bangladesh . . . the country will be poverty-free in phases," he said, speaking at a function at Rangunia Upazila Parishad auditorium in the district.
The minister was distributing financial assistance among 261 insolvent people from the information minister's fund. He also distributed multimedia projectors and sports items among different educational institutions.
Upazila Parishad Chairman and Awami League upazila unit president Khalilur Rahman Chowdhury, Assistant Commissioner (land) Purbita Chakma, Rangunia Municipality Mayor Md Shahjahan Sikder, Upazila Vice Chairmen Md Shafiqul Islam and Monowara Begum, AL leaders Idris Ajgor, Sirazul Islam Chowdhury and Engineer Shamsul Alam Talukder, among others, addressed the programme as special guests while Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Md Masudur Rahman was in the chair.
Dr Hasan, also the publicity and publication secretary of ruling AL, said the poverty rate has reduced to 20 percent from 41 percent during the last 10-year tenure of the Awami League government.
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