Job-oriented projects taken for poor people: Minister

The government has taken some employment-oriented projects for distressed population aimed at making them economically self-sufficient. ‘The job-oriented projects would be at Haors, Baors and Char areas for underprivileged people to make them economically self-sufficient,’ Planning Minister AHM Mostafa Kamal hs said while addressing a conference in the city. Expressing his firm belief, the minister said that Bangladesh will become a middle-income state within seven years. The country has achieved a sustained robust economic growth, development of human indicators and impressive social indicators, and the index of peace. He said the dream of becoming middle income country will be fulfilled within 2021, according to a news agency.