Education to cut poverty
Land Minister Md Rezaul Karim Hira yesterday said the government has taken steps to educate the marginalised people for reducing poverty.
"We want to turn the youth community into human resources by imparting them improved training," he told a discussion at Jamalpur Shilpakala Academy here on the occasion of the World Poverty Reduction Day, says an official release.
Deputy Commissioner Md Sirajuddin Ahmed, Civil Surgeon Dr A Hakim, concerned officials of local administration, journalists and NGO representatives, among others, spoke on the occasion.
Rezaul said after assuming power, the government has distributed khas land among 56,000 landless people of the country.
Later, the minister attended a meeting of 40-day employment generation programme in sadar upazila.
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