70,000 families getting benefits from LGED project
Tuesday, 4 August 2009
Livelihoods of about 70,000 families in 559 villages of nine upazilas in Sunamganj district have improved substantially under an integrated programme of the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), officials said, reports UNB.
Before 2003, there was no road communication in the villages surrounded by haors and beels in the district.
The LGED under its Community-based Resource Management Project (CBRMP) has so far built a total of 163 RCC and concrete block roads in the remote areas, the officials said.
Under the project, 2098 tube-wells have been installed for providing drinking water to more than 70,000 households; arsenic has been tested in suspected 1204 tube-well water and found 635 polluted by arsenic, Project Director Sheikh Md Mohsin told a group of journalists who recently visited Sunamganj.
Besides, he said, SaNa filters were provided on pilot basis to 102 families for ensuring arsenic-free safe drinking water; 56,119 waterproof latrines were provided to 56,119 households, while 20 Multipurpose Village Centres (MVCs) in 20 unions were constructed for the community members.
The Project Director said it is a poverty alleviation project with a target of reaching 90,000 to 1,35,000 poor households holding land below 2.5 acres.
Before 2003, there was no road communication in the villages surrounded by haors and beels in the district.
The LGED under its Community-based Resource Management Project (CBRMP) has so far built a total of 163 RCC and concrete block roads in the remote areas, the officials said.
Under the project, 2098 tube-wells have been installed for providing drinking water to more than 70,000 households; arsenic has been tested in suspected 1204 tube-well water and found 635 polluted by arsenic, Project Director Sheikh Md Mohsin told a group of journalists who recently visited Sunamganj.
Besides, he said, SaNa filters were provided on pilot basis to 102 families for ensuring arsenic-free safe drinking water; 56,119 waterproof latrines were provided to 56,119 households, while 20 Multipurpose Village Centres (MVCs) in 20 unions were constructed for the community members.
The Project Director said it is a poverty alleviation project with a target of reaching 90,000 to 1,35,000 poor households holding land below 2.5 acres.