BSS
Over 2.73 crore poor and extreme-poor people across the country will be benefitted from the government’s “Ektee Bari, Ektee Khamar (EBEK)” project, one of the 10 priority initiatives of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
The government has a plan to form over 91.92 thousand Village Development
Associations (VDAs) by June 2020 and a total of 54.60 lakh families will get
benefits from the VDAs under the project, one of the successful microfinance
programmes of the government.
“The government has undertaken the project to alleviate poverty as part of
its plan to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through fund
mobilization and farming. In line with the key objectives of the project, it
has been playing a vital role to make the poor people self-reliant,” EBEK
Project Director Akber Hossain told BSS. He said a total of 79,579 VDAs have already been formed across the country
from which about 38.10 lakh families are getting benefits. The beneficiaries
have deposited over Taka 1450.14 crore till September 2018 and the government
has provided Taka 1,227.75 crore as EBEK project, he added.
Through the project, Hossain said the government is assisting capital
formation of the poor families, sharpening their skills through training and
motivation, allowing them to sit together at courtyard meetings, enabling
them to take decisions independently and develop the need based small family
farms along with ensuring marketing facilities for their products. He said,
by now, members of the VDAs have become self-reliant and capable of running
their businesses independently.
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