Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has vowed to eradicate poverty from the country through united efforts of all.
"If we all work together, there will be no poverty in the country," she said on Saturday while addressing a program virtually titled "Gift of house to the homeless people in Mujib Borsho."
The program was organized to hand over 160 homes among the homeless people at the Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in Dhaka.
Senior secretaries and secretaries of the government took the initiative to provide homes to the homeless people.
The prime minister attended the program from her official residence Ganabhaban.
She said that the government has already reduced the rate of poverty significantly and want to reduce more.
"We pledged to declare the country free from poverty by 2021, but due to coronavirus it could not be done, but our efforts are on and will be continued."
Sheikh Hasina said that the people of the country are very much courageous and they have snatched their independence from the Pakistani occupational forces under the leadership of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
"We are victorious nation, we will walk in the world arena as victorious, we have earned that honour," she said.
She urged the well-off to come forward for helping the people of their respective areas and by this the people of those areas would get better life.
"Staying good alone is not the humanity at all."
The prime minister said the government is working relentlessly to provide home to the homeless people in the Mujib Borsho (Mujib Year).
"We will take initiative to illuminate every house in the country during the Mujib Borsho, we have taken plan towards that end and we are working also as per the plan," she said.
Talking about the government's success to ensure food security in the country, she mentioned that the government is now taking steps to ensure nutrition for all and it has taken initiative to increase the production of fish, meat, milk, eggs and others.
She urged all not to leave one inch land without cultivation for the better production of food grains.
She mentioned that the government has given special attention to the mechanization of agriculture.
The prime minister said the government is establishing 100 economic zones across the country.
"We have also taken initiative to establish food processing industries in different parts of the country."
She said that due to coronavirus pandemic many initiatives of the government for the welfare of people have been stalled, but the government is working to reach the financial assistance to the rural areas.
Sheikh Hasina said that working for the people of the country is the prime task of her life as she has lost everything in her life on August 15, 1975.
"It would be the success of my life if I could do something for the people of this country. I never think what I have gained or not, to me what can I give to the people of the country is the main thing."
