Anti-poverty scheme

Around 36,000 slum families enjoy sanitation facilities in Rajshahi

More than 36,000 poor and slum households are enjoying sanitation facilities by virtue of commissioning of 11,000 hygienic latrines in the metropolis, reports BSS.
Similarly, they are getting facilities of safe drinking water from 2,350 tubewells installed in the slum areas besides different other settlement improvement privileges like footpath and drains.
Various other settlement improvement facilities like one community latrine, 42,412 squire-kilometer footpath, 6,708 meter drain, 34 dustbins and seven community centres were developed for ensuring improved water and sanitation among the poverty-prone communities.
The access to improved water sources makes the lives of community members healthier while the constructed toilets and bathing facilities leads to improved hygiene practices and the footpaths improves settlement accessibility and mobility.
Dr ABM Sharif Uddin, chief executive officer of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC), said the infrastructural and settlement improvement activities were executed by the direct supervision and monitoring by 173 Community Development Committees under an anti-poverty scheme.
According to the officials concerned, main thrust of the project was to improve the living and livelihood condition of around two and half lakh poor and extreme poor people, especially women and girls, in the city. Under the project, the beneficiary communities identified and prioritised the environmental, social and economic challenges they face as well as the required actions to address them, said Engineer Nur Islam, Town Member-Secretary of the project.
The slum households have also come together in an anti- poverty savings scheme to raise more than Taka 11.5 crore. Through the savings and credit programmes, the communities now can operate their own savings schemes and create a revolving fund from which credit operations are being managed by themselves.
The programme promotes household and community level urban food production technology demonstrations, provides small input supports especially high yielding variety vegetable and fruit seeds, saplings, ducklings, chick and poultry vaccination.

 

Anti-poverty scheme

Around 36,000 slum families enjoy sanitation facilities in Rajshahi

More than 36,000 poor and slum households are enjoying sanitation facilities by virtue of commissioning of 11,000 hygienic latrines in the metropolis, reports BSS. Similarly, they are getting facilities of safe drinking water from 2,350 tubewells installed in the slum areas besides different other settlement improvement privileges like footpath and drains. Various other settlement improvement facilities like one community latrine, 42,412 squire-kilometer footpath, 6,708 meter drain, 34 dustbins and seven community centres were developed for ensuring improved water and sanitation among the poverty-prone communities. The access to improved water sources makes the lives of community members healthier while the constructed toilets and bathing facilities leads to improved hygiene practices and the footpaths improves settlement accessibility and mobility. Dr ABM Sharif Uddin, chief executive officer of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC), said the infrastructural and settlement improvement activities were executed by the direct supervision and monitoring by 173 Community Development Committees under an anti-poverty scheme. According to the officials concerned, main thrust of the project was to improve the living and livelihood condition of around two and half lakh poor and extreme poor people, especially women and girls, in the city. Under the project, the beneficiary communities identified and prioritised the environmental, social and economic challenges they face as well as the required actions to address them, said Engineer Nur Islam, Town Member-Secretary of the project. The slum households have also come together in an anti- poverty savings scheme to raise more than Taka 11.5 crore. Through the savings and credit programmes, the communities now can operate their own savings schemes and create a revolving fund from which credit operations are being managed by themselves. The programme promotes household and community level urban food production technology demonstrations, provides small input supports especially high yielding variety vegetable and fruit seeds, saplings, ducklings, chick and poultry vaccination.