Homelessness to hope: How Ashrayan problem is enabling Bangladesh’s inclusive progress

By Sahidul Hasan Khokon: Moksedul, a brick kiln labourer, was given begin to in one other particular person’s house. His son, too, was welcomed in a house that did not belong to Moksedul. For 30 prolonged years, Mokseful waited for a house that he can identify his private. His long-desired need has been fulfilled ultimately, after he has been allotted a semi-furnished house beneath his private title. All trendy facilities, along with electrical vitality and consuming water, will be discovered within the house. Moksedul is on cloud 9 after receiving this current from Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. He talked about he can dwell very properly alongside together with his family now.

Sixty-five-year-old Piara Begum is a resident of Patharghata in Barguna, the southernmost metropolis of the nation, constructed on the shores of the Bay of Bengal. Thirty years prior to now, her family was misplaced throughout the river. Afterwards, she would assemble a house on the monetary establishment of the river. After marriage, her husband did not have any property or house and the couple continued to dwell on the banks of the river. But 16 years prior to now, her husband died of most cancers. As she had no children, Begum was left to her private devices.

Finally, Piara Begum’s misery has come to an end after she is allotted a house constructed by the Bangladesh authorities on the occasion of ‘Mujib centenary’ beneath the ‘Ashrayan’ scheme.

“I have been suffering all my life. I never dreamed of a house. Now, I have got a semi-furnished house with land. The prime minister has given me a house. I am very happy. As long as I live, I will pray for the prime minister,” she told India Today.

The story of Moksedul and Piara Begum finds resonance with lakhs of poor, landless, and homeless people in Bangladesh. Thousands have now found shelter and seen an end to their deprivation under Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s initiatives for inclusive enchancment.
Houses constructed beneath the Bangladesh authorities’s Ashrayan problem. (Image: India Today)

ABOUT ASHRAYAN PROJECT

The Ashrayan problem is doubtless one of many schemes undertaken by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to remodel Bangladesh proper right into a developed and prosperous nation by 2041. Through this problem, Sheikh Hasina is aiming for inclusive enchancment by providing houses for landless, homeless, and marginalised of us in 64 districts of the nation. She declared, “Not a single person will be homeless in Bangladesh.”

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According to official sources, since its inception in 1997, spherical 5,07,244 landless and homeless households have been rehabilitated in quite a few ranges by the use of this shelter problem. Through this problem, the backward neighborhood of society has been equipped with semi-finished houses along with 2 decimals of land possession.
Beneficiaries obtained two decimals of land along with a semi-furnished house.(Image: India Today)

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Beneficiaries beneath this scheme often are usually not solely equipped lodging, nonetheless are moreover equipped quite a few teaching, on daily basis allowances all through teaching, and loans after teaching to make them economically self-reliant. The scheme comprises empowering women by giving them half possession of land and houses, providing free electrical vitality connection, providing clear water by placing in a single shallow tube properly for every 10 households, and providing meals assist beneath three months of VGF to the resettled households initially.

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A number of bushes have been planted throughout the neighborhood to make the realm beneath the problem livable. Through this, landless, homeless, and displaced people are being established as human property.
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Under the problem, rehabilitation has been deliberate for 2,93,361 households throughout the first part and 5,92,261 households in second.

SHEIKH HASINA MODEL OF DEVELOPMENT

The Sheikh Hasina-led authorities has launched in a lot of initiatives to hold the deprived of us of society into the mainstream of enchancment. Additionally, native climate refugees, minorities, third gender, beggars, Bede, and completely different backward communities are moreover being equipped houses with land.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. (Image: India Today)

They are being included throughout the mainstream of monetary enchancment by creating alternate options for education, nicely being and employment. ‘Ashrayan Project’ is a novel occasion of how a house usually is a fundamental instrument for common family welfare and social enchancment. This methodology of inclusive enchancment and poverty alleviation has already come to be usually referred to as the “Sheikh Hasina model”.

The choices of this model comprises turning into economically self-sufficient by rising incomes vitality and monetary financial savings; establishing respectable livelihood and social standing; empowering women by giving women half possession of land and houses; creating human property by rising experience and capabilities by the use of teaching; bettering the environment by the use of intensive afforestation and tree plantation; guaranteeing metropolis amenities in villages.

ASHRAYAN PROJECT DURING MUJIB YEAR

Mujib Year was launched for the celebration of the beginning centenary of Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. On this occasion, 63,999 households have been equipped with land possession throughout the first part on January 21, 2021, and 53,330 households have been equipped with land possession throughout the second part on June 20, 2021. Currently, better than 65,000 further houses are beneath growth throughout the third part. On the occasion of Mujib centenary, Sheikh Hasina’s authorities equipped semi-furnished single houses with land to 1,83,003 households to this point.

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In order to hold the backward communities of the state into the mainstream, eternal possession of land is being equipped by establishing absolutely free houses. Examples of low-interest loans for land purchase are current in a lot of worldwide areas on the planet, nonetheless the case of free land possession with houses is the first in Bangladesh.

ACHIEVING SDGs THROUGH ASHRAYAN

Shelter initiatives moreover play a key place achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs. A house would help a family escape of the vicious cycle of poverty. Through these shelter initiatives, a fragmented family would access protected housing, education, nicely being, women’s empowerment, and women’s rights.
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Sheikh Hasina’s Innovation Shelter Scheme has been able to lead to optimistic modifications in inclusive enchancment. Through the implementation of the Asharyan Project, Bangladesh has been facilitated achieve the targets of poverty eradication, hunger eradication, nicely being care, top quality education, gender equality and women’s empowerment, clear water and sanitation, first charge employment, reducing inequality and sustainable and secure settlements.

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