Underprivileged freedom fighters get homes

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday handed over keys of 5,000 houses built under the government's "Bir Nibash" project for underprivileged freedom fighters.

The liberation war affairs ministry organised the ceremony at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium where the PM joined virtually from the Gono Bhaban.

The houses are being given to the valiant freedom fighters as a gift from the PM as per her announcement on the occasion of Mujib Borsha, the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and the celebration of 50 years of Bangladesh's independence.

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) approved the Tk 4,122cr project on March 21 last year.

Under the project, 30,000 houses will be built for insolvent freedom fighters, Birangana (women freedom fighters), widows and children of martyred and late freedom fighters.