Mujib-Indira summit tomorrow

September 13, 1972

TALKS WITH INDIRA WILL COVER PAKISTAN AND CHINA ISSUES

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will arrive in New Delhi tomorrow morning and will leave for Dhaka after a three-hour stopover. Talks between the Bangladesh prime minister and the Indian prime minister will be held at the Rashtrapati Bhaban during the stopover. The talks according to Indian sources will be mainly related to political matters of mutual interest, Pakistan's attitude towards Bangladesh and the situation which has developed following the Chinese veto denying Bangladesh its place in the United Nations are likely to figure prominently in the talks between Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Indira Gandhi.

TK 72CR SPENT ON ECONOMIC REHABILITATION

Relief and Rehabilitation Minister AHM Kamaruzzaman says in Dhaka today that the government has already spent Tk 72 crore for the economic rehabilitation of the people who had suffered badly during the days  of occupation of Bangladesh. The money has been spent by way of house building grant, GR cash, and in education and housing programme.

Addressing a press conference, the minister says that the government has also allocated about Tk 1.43 crore maunds of foodgrains for free distribution among the affected people. He further says that the acute unemployment in rural areas just after the Liberation War posed a major problem and the government allocated a Tk 25 crore for a massive test relief programme to provide easy employment to the rural people.

13 LAKH BIGHAS OF KHAS LAND IN PROCESS OF DISTRIBUTION

Thirteen lakh bighas of khas land available with the government are now in the process of distribution among the landless peasants of the country discloses Land Reforms and Revenue Minister Abdur Rab Serniabat today. Each landless peasant family would be given four and a half bighas. In addition to this, another chunk up to three bighas might be allotted to deserving applicants in char areas where selected candidates should undertake cooperative farming and establish homestead by the farm, he adds.

SOURCES: September 14, 1972 issues of Bangladesh Observer, Dainik Bangla and Dainik Ittefaq.