Disaster-resilient houses for 244 homeless families
Two hundred and forty-four homeless families in the district are getting houses under a project named ‘Disaster tolerance dwelling house building for homeless people’.
The Department of Disaster Management is implementing the project under its Rural Infrastructure Maintenance Programme.
Construction work of the disaster-resilient houses have been completed almost and the authorities concerned have already started handing over some dwellings to the beneficiaries, said Md Nazrul Islam, district relief and rehabilitation officer in Patuakhali.
Deputy Commissioner (DC) Md Matiul Islam Chowdhury visited some houses in different areas under Sadar upazila on Monday. Nazrul Islam, Upazila Nirbahi Officer Latifa Jannati and Md Rafiqul Islam, project implementation officer (PIO) in the upazila, among others, were present at the time.
On a visit, this correspondent found that the semi-pucca houses have been built with brick wall, tin roof and concrete floor.
Each dwelling contains two rooms, a toilet, a corridor and a kitchen.
With two rooms, a toilet, a corridor and a kitchen, each house was built at a cost of Tk 2.58 lakh, said the PIO.
Hailing from Dibuapur village in Sadar upazila, 55-year-old day labourer Md Selim Shikder expressed his utter happiness over getting the house.
As he had no ability to build a house, he lived in a shanty earlier, said Selim.
“From now my two school going children will get better environment for studying,” said Selim’s wife Samsunnahar Begum.
Liton Khan, a construction worker of Pashchim Hetalia village in the upazila, said he is very happy to get the house as he had no ability to build a house on 4.50 decimals of his land.
A total of 244 houses are being built, said Nazrul Islam, district relief and rehabilitation officer in Patuakhali.
Of them, 33 are in Galachipa, 32 in Rangabali, 31 in Baufal, 27 in Dashmina, 27 in Dumki, 25 in Kalapara, 22 in Mirzaganj and 47 in Sadar upazila, he said.
The DC said the houses have been built to distribute among homeless people and the prime minster will soon distribute those formally.
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