No monga in greater Rangpur due to govt steps
Thursday, 17 September 2009
RANGPUR, Sept 16 (BSS): The seasonal monga that repeats every year due to job crisis of the farm labourers during the lean period of 'Aswin and Kartik' is absent so far because of positive changes in the people's socio-economic conditions in greater Rangpur.
The situation is expected to remain under full control this year following the ongoing coordinated and diversified government steps that lessened extent of the seasonal job crisis, district and upazila level government and NGO officials and experts said Wednesday.
Besides, the present government has taken adequate and massive programmes in various forms to eradicate monga once for all by creating wage-earning and job facilities for the poor everywhere in the monga-prone areas in greater Rangpur, they said.
A large number of the poor, distressed and have-nots are being assisted to earn livelihoods from these programmes, which have been creating increased job and income-generating facilities when the monga period began Wednesday on Aswin 1 in the area.
Distribution of rice, flour and cash money under the VGF, VGD, TR, Food for Work (FFW), allowances for freedom fighters, widows, divorcees, aged people, handicapped, sub-stipends, maternity allowances, etc. have been playing vital roles.
The government has also taken necessary preparations to launch special employment opportunities for the hardcore poor in the poverty-prone areas from next October 1 and each of the beneficiaries will get Tk 100 for their per day works as wages for 40 days.
The public representatives, deputy commissioners and upazila nirbahi officers (UNOs) will launch the 40-day programme that includes repairing of bridges, culverts, roads, and developing water bodies, ponds, canals, institutions and other infrastructures, earth filling, preparing compost fertiliser heaps using water hyacinth and other works in greater Rangpur.
The departments of Women Affairs, Social Services, Education, Youth Development, Live-stocks, Cooperatives, RUKUB and many other government organisations have also been conducting various programmes to eradicate poverty once for all.
The easy-term loans, training for unemployed youths, girls and women on various trades, homestead farming, pisciculture, rearing poultry birds, animals and farming early paddies and expansion of cottage industries have also been proved to be very effective.
Thousands of the poor have already achieved their economic self-reliance through cultivation of high valued crops, fish, poultry, rearing cows and goats, setting up of cottage and small industries, sewing handloom garments, micro-credit activities and participatory social afforestation.
The distressed people of the river erosion and flood, monga and poverty-prone areas of all 35 upazilas in Rangpur, Nilphamari, Lalmonirhat, Gaibandha and Kurigram are now getting all possible assistances and will get more to say good-bye to monga very soon.
The situation is expected to remain under full control this year following the ongoing coordinated and diversified government steps that lessened extent of the seasonal job crisis, district and upazila level government and NGO officials and experts said Wednesday.
Besides, the present government has taken adequate and massive programmes in various forms to eradicate monga once for all by creating wage-earning and job facilities for the poor everywhere in the monga-prone areas in greater Rangpur, they said.
A large number of the poor, distressed and have-nots are being assisted to earn livelihoods from these programmes, which have been creating increased job and income-generating facilities when the monga period began Wednesday on Aswin 1 in the area.
Distribution of rice, flour and cash money under the VGF, VGD, TR, Food for Work (FFW), allowances for freedom fighters, widows, divorcees, aged people, handicapped, sub-stipends, maternity allowances, etc. have been playing vital roles.
The government has also taken necessary preparations to launch special employment opportunities for the hardcore poor in the poverty-prone areas from next October 1 and each of the beneficiaries will get Tk 100 for their per day works as wages for 40 days.
The public representatives, deputy commissioners and upazila nirbahi officers (UNOs) will launch the 40-day programme that includes repairing of bridges, culverts, roads, and developing water bodies, ponds, canals, institutions and other infrastructures, earth filling, preparing compost fertiliser heaps using water hyacinth and other works in greater Rangpur.
The departments of Women Affairs, Social Services, Education, Youth Development, Live-stocks, Cooperatives, RUKUB and many other government organisations have also been conducting various programmes to eradicate poverty once for all.
The easy-term loans, training for unemployed youths, girls and women on various trades, homestead farming, pisciculture, rearing poultry birds, animals and farming early paddies and expansion of cottage industries have also been proved to be very effective.
Thousands of the poor have already achieved their economic self-reliance through cultivation of high valued crops, fish, poultry, rearing cows and goats, setting up of cottage and small industries, sewing handloom garments, micro-credit activities and participatory social afforestation.
The distressed people of the river erosion and flood, monga and poverty-prone areas of all 35 upazilas in Rangpur, Nilphamari, Lalmonirhat, Gaibandha and Kurigram are now getting all possible assistances and will get more to say good-bye to monga very soon.