Everybody to have a roof over head, an address: PM.

Housing is a basic demand of citizens and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Saturday assured that everybody would have a roof over their head, an address of their own, as she gifted homes to thousands of homeless people. She said her government would manage shelters for all marking the Mujib Borsho to enable them to lead a standard life. 'We have set a target in the Mujib Borsho that not a single person will remain without address or home. I will somehow manage an address for everyone,'' she said while distributing homes to 66,189 families alongside rehabilitating 3,715 others in the barracks-type cluster houses under the Ashrayan-2 Project. Joining the programme virtually from her official residence Ganabhaban in the capital, the Prime Minister asked all concerned, particularly the local administrations, to hand over the ownerships of the houses to the beneficiaries. She mentioned that some 320,000 families had earlier been given homes while work on building one lakh more for the landless and homeless will start soon. The Prime Minister said she was very happy today as she managed to give such a large number of houses to landless and homeless people on a day of winter. Describing the ceremony marking the distribution of a large number of homes as "the biggest festival" in the Mujib Borsho, she said, 'Today, it is the largest festival. There is no such big festival like giving homes to landless and homeless people on such a large scale.' The Prime Minister, however, thanked all concerned including the local administrations and public representatives to manage building such a huge number of houses maintaining due standards in a short period. Sheikh Hasina said that the souls of her father (Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman) and her mother and lakhs of martyrs who made supreme sacrifice for the country's independence will rest in peace as such a huge number of people have got their own homes. The Prime Minister urged all to pray for her so she could build the country as a 'Sonar Bangladesh' as dreamt by the Father of the Nation. 'My only target is to ensure a beautiful and improved life to everyone and Banglalee can move across the globe with dignity with their head held high.' Referring to giving homes to the backward people in society such as dalits, horijons, transgender, tea workers and others, she said that her government has been tirelessly working to ensure improved live for cross-section of people in society. She said...