Govt programme to cut down rural poverty
Thursday, 13 November 2008
A three-year comprehensive rural development programme of the government is under implementation beginning this fiscal to generate employment and drastically cut down poverty, reports BSS.
The programme, senior officials told the news agency, was designed to improve the socio-economic condition of the population strapped in poverty.
The programme with an estimated spending of Tk 4.44 billion over the plan period would seek to achieve the objective through rural development, cooperative based activities, training for self employment and rural development research, they said.
The programme, they said, would bring the "ultra poor" under the coverage of micro-credit.
It would, they said, create self employment opportunities for 60 per cent of the micro credit borrowers by fiscal 2010-2011 for which key activities would include pre-credit training and micro credit operational services.
They said that micro credit would be provided to 17 lakh people to villages in 477 upazilas in 64 districts to make 60 per cent of them self employed. Pre-credit training would be provided to three lakh among them.
Approximately 10 lakh women would be engaged in productive activities with women friendly micro credit and training to improve their socio-economic status, they said.
Under a targeted 'char (shoal) livelihood" programme covering 50,000 homesteads 2.50 lakh people would be brought above the poverty trap in 150 unions of 28 upazilas of five districts of the Brahmaputra and Jamuna belt by fiscal 2010-11, they said. Under the programme homestead bases would be raised, safe water would be supplied and assets would be given to the 50,000 families rendered ultra poor by the destruction caused by the river.
The char livelihood programme (char jibikayon prokolpa) also seeks to bring 1.50 lakh women 150 union of 28 upazilas of the five districts in the Brahmaputra and Jamuna belt above the poverty line, they said.
Self employment opportunities would be created for three lakh people through village and profession based cooperatives motivation and income generating training to the members of the cooperatives, they said.
Standard of living would be improved for about a lakh people through applied research, innovation of new rural development models and strategies, they said.
Human resources training in rural areas, they said, would enhance the skills of 15,000 officers and staff and create 25,000 skilled manpower.
They said that the ongoing 'comprehensive village development programme' would seek to cut down rural poverty in 476 upazilas in 64 districts through creation of self employment.
Women's participation, they said, would get priority under the comprehensive village development programme.
The programme, senior officials told the news agency, was designed to improve the socio-economic condition of the population strapped in poverty.
The programme with an estimated spending of Tk 4.44 billion over the plan period would seek to achieve the objective through rural development, cooperative based activities, training for self employment and rural development research, they said.
The programme, they said, would bring the "ultra poor" under the coverage of micro-credit.
It would, they said, create self employment opportunities for 60 per cent of the micro credit borrowers by fiscal 2010-2011 for which key activities would include pre-credit training and micro credit operational services.
They said that micro credit would be provided to 17 lakh people to villages in 477 upazilas in 64 districts to make 60 per cent of them self employed. Pre-credit training would be provided to three lakh among them.
Approximately 10 lakh women would be engaged in productive activities with women friendly micro credit and training to improve their socio-economic status, they said.
Under a targeted 'char (shoal) livelihood" programme covering 50,000 homesteads 2.50 lakh people would be brought above the poverty trap in 150 unions of 28 upazilas of five districts of the Brahmaputra and Jamuna belt by fiscal 2010-11, they said. Under the programme homestead bases would be raised, safe water would be supplied and assets would be given to the 50,000 families rendered ultra poor by the destruction caused by the river.
The char livelihood programme (char jibikayon prokolpa) also seeks to bring 1.50 lakh women 150 union of 28 upazilas of the five districts in the Brahmaputra and Jamuna belt above the poverty line, they said.
Self employment opportunities would be created for three lakh people through village and profession based cooperatives motivation and income generating training to the members of the cooperatives, they said.
Standard of living would be improved for about a lakh people through applied research, innovation of new rural development models and strategies, they said.
Human resources training in rural areas, they said, would enhance the skills of 15,000 officers and staff and create 25,000 skilled manpower.
They said that the ongoing 'comprehensive village development programme' would seek to cut down rural poverty in 476 upazilas in 64 districts through creation of self employment.
Women's participation, they said, would get priority under the comprehensive village development programme.