Govt set to embark on turning villages into towns

The government is set to embark on a multidimensional plan to modernise villages with urban amenities and present rural folk a dazzle of urbanisation in view of the country’s urban areas continuing to absorb explosive population growth. Dwelling on the plan to turn villages into towns, LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Md Tajul Islam said that financial and administrative authorities will be decentralized up to local government bodies.

“Cooperatives system in rural areas would be rejuvenated to generate self-employments for youths,” he added. In view of the present socio-economic context, the rural Bangladesh has become a focal point for issues of national concern with the impact of high population and development on natural resources, lack of sanitation and its impact on health, water pollution from raw sewage and pesticides runoff and soil loss and desertification due to erosion.

With about sixty five per cent population residing in the country’s rural areas and lacking in urban facilities prompted the present government to go for the multidimensional plan.

To empower the rural people the government aptly has envisioned on turning villages into towns as outlined in the electoral manifesto of Awami League. Tajul Islam said Bangladesh Samabaya Bank distributed around Taka 17.43 crore loans among 4125 members of 109 cooperatives associations in different productive sectors, including small businesses, fisheries, livestock farming, tea production, agricultural products and solar and ICT projects.

He said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ten initiatives including One House Ektee Bari Ektee Khamar (EBEK) and Palli Sanchay Bank, Sheltering Project, Education Assistance Programme, Women Empowerment, Electricity to Every House, Community Clinic and Social Safety Net Programme are being implemented to turn the country into a middle income one by 2021.

EBEK project director and Palli Sanchay Bank managing director Akber Hossain said currently the government is giving maximum Taka 50,000 as loans among rural people to initiate small livestock farms. “We have a plan to double the amount from the next year,” he added.

Experts are of the opinions that advancing technology can be regarded as one of the tools that can bridge the gap between the urban Bangladesh and the rural Bangladesh.

 

Govt set to embark on turning villages into towns

The government is set to embark on a multidimensional plan to modernise villages with urban amenities and present rural folk a dazzle of urbanisation in view of the countrys urban areas continuing to absorb explosive population growth. Dwelling on the plan to turn villages into towns, LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Md Tajul Islam said that financial and administrative authorities will be decentralized up to local government bodies. Cooperatives system in rural areas would be rejuvenated to generate self-employments for youths, he added. In view of the present socio-economic context, the rural Bangladesh has become a focal point for issues of national concern with the impact of high population and development on natural resources, lack of sanitation and its impact on health, water pollution from raw sewage and pesticides runoff and soil loss and desertification due to erosion. With about sixty five per cent population residing in the countrys rural areas and lacking in urban facilities prompted the present government to go for the multidimensional plan. To empower the rural people the government aptly has envisioned on turning villages into towns as outlined in the electoral manifesto of Awami League. Tajul Islam said Bangladesh Samabaya Bank distributed around Taka 17.43 crore loans among 4125 members of 109 cooperatives associations in different productive sectors, including small businesses, fisheries, livestock farming, tea production, agricultural products and solar and ICT projects. He said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasinas ten initiatives including One House Ektee Bari Ektee Khamar (EBEK) and Palli Sanchay Bank, Sheltering Project, Education Assistance Programme, Women Empowerment, Electricity to Every House, Community Clinic and Social Safety Net Programme are being implemented to turn the country into a middle income one by 2021. EBEK project director and Palli Sanchay Bank managing director Akber Hossain said currently the government is giving maximum Taka 50,000 as loans among rural people to initiate small livestock farms. We have a plan to double the amount from the next year, he added. Experts are of the opinions that advancing technology can be regarded as one of the tools that can bridge the gap between the urban Bangladesh and the rural Bangladesh.