Sheikh Hasina unveils plan to upgrade slum dwellers lifestyle

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Prime Minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina yesterday unveiled her plan to upgrade the poorer people’s
lifestyle in the capital saying if elected to power, her government would redesign the city’s congested areas and resettle slum dwellers in apartment
complexes. “The rich people alone will not live in the flats buildings, multistoried residential facilities will be made available for the people of mid and low income groups as well where they could live on daily, weekly or monthly payment system,” she said. In her second such rally in the capital, Sheikh Hasina said initially 10,000 such flats would constructed for 8More on Page 7, Col
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congested areas would be redesigned to make them suitable abode for higher
income groups of people as well. “If we are elected in the coming election, no people of the country will
live below the poverty line. Every people will be able to live a descent life
and we have taken the plan,” she said. Awami League’s Dhaka South unit organized the rally to drum up support for candidates of the party and AL-led grand alliance in nine parliamentary
constituencies within the purview of Dhaka South City Corporation. Sheikh Hasina said once Dhaka City was reeling from acute water crisis
while power rationing was a common phenomenon throughout 24 hours of the day
prompting enraged people even to chase a local parliament member for their
failure to resolve the water and power crisis. “The Awami League government has settled the crisis,” she said. The prime minister said Kamrangir Char was a most neglected part of the
Dhaka where water logging was a very common problem while lack any sewerage
system remained as a curse. She said her government built necessary roads, pipelines, footpaths and
drainage system resolving the water logging problem. She said the Awami League government incorporated all 17 unions around
Dhaka within the city corporation to facilitate them with civic amenities.
All road of the area are now lighted with LED light. A 31-bed hospital has
been constructed in Kamrangir Char, Sheikh Hasina said her government simultaneously established many schools
and colleges in Kamrangir Char while new academic buildings were constructed
in six schools there. Seven high schools were nationalized and students can appear in the public
examinations from those school exam centres while six schools were brought
under monthly payment order (MPO). She said her government acknowledged Qawmi madrasas “dawah-e-hadith” as a
post-graduate degree while the much expected Islamic Arabia University for
further study in Arabic would be established in Kamrangir Char. In the meeting the prime minister introduced the candidates of Awami
League and Grand Alliance with the audience seeking vote for them on December
30 poll saying their victory was very crucial to continue the ongoing
development.