100-day job-creating programme launched

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FE Report
The government Monday launched the '100-day Employment Generation Programme' by providing temporary jobs to the unemployed poor people in rural areas across the country for at least 100 days in a year. The programme is aimed at bringing some 10 million poor people under its social safety-net scheme.
Under the new programme, job opportunities will be created locally for 2.0 million unemployed poor with a daily remuneration of Tk.100 per person.
"Of all the safety-net programmes launched so far, this will be by far the largest," Adviser for food and disaster management A M M Shawkat Ali said Monday while briefing the newsmen about the scheme.
A total of 480 upazilas under all the country's six divisions were covered under the first phase of the scheme from the start, he informed the newsmen.
Food and Disaster Management secretary Mollah Wahiduzzaman and Principal Informal Officer (PIO) Iftekhar Hossain and the project director, among other officials, were present on the occasion.
The press conference was told that the first phase of the programme would continue for two-and-half months until November this year while the second phase would kick off from March next year and continue for two months until April.