Make list of homeless people: Hasina to AL men

-- Thanks foreign delegates for attending council

-- AL works for social security 

-- Food production increased by AL-led govt

-- Party implements projects to develop infrastructure sector

-- Digital Bangladesh is no more a dream now

-- 193 crore text books distributed free of cost

-- Govt mulls distribution of one lakh health cards

-- Women empowerment ensured by formulating policy

-- Climate trust fund arranged

-- Govt shows zero tolerance to terrorism

-- Won’t let militants to operate in Bangladesh

-- Calls upon all to eliminate poverty from Bangladesh

-- Per capita income to be raised

-- Hunger-free Bangladesh to be built up

-- Govt will work for sanitation and pure drinking water

-- Will arrange multi-media classrooms at educational institutions

-- 100 percent people to get electricity

Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina today called upon her party men to prepare lists of poor people so that her government can help them to have a better life.

“We will make houses for them,” the premier said while addressing the 20th National Council of Bangladesh Awami League at Suhrawardy Udyan of Dhaka.

“It is my call to those, who are elected representatives -- from members of parliament to the ward levels -- and all leaders and activists of our party and its affiliated organisations, that we want to make Bangladesh free of poverty,” the prime minister said at the political gathering.

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The government will construct houses for them for free because “it is our duty and they are our citizens,” she said reminding her party men that Awami League is the organisation for the people and it is the party’s duty to work for the do good for the people.    

“If we can do this properly, I believe that there would be no poverty in Bangladesh.”

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During the AL tenure, poverty was reduced to 22.4 percentage points from 97 percentage points, she said.

Expressing her gratitude to her party men, Hasina said the grass-roots level leaders and activists have taken the party ahead through their relentless self-sacrifice.