Today, Prime Minister Tarique Rahman gave the relevant authorities instructions to act quickly to support farmers in the Haor region who have been impacted by excessive rainfall.
He issued the required directives to compile an open list of the impacted farms.
According to a news statement from the Prime Minister’s news wing, the Prime Minister gave the orders during a meeting at his Cabinet Division office in the Bangladesh Secretariat here this afternoon.The purpose of the conference was to assess the efforts being made to give impacted farmers in the haor areas financial support.
According to the release, the Prime Minister said, “An accurate and transparent list must be prepared by identifying the actual affected farmers. Based on this list, financial assistance will be provided to the farmers for the next three months”.
The meeting decided that financial assistance would be given to the affected farmers as quickly as possible. Simultaneously, the meeting also held discussions on bringing forward slightly the paddy planting and harvesting activities so that farmers do not suffer losses due to rainfall.
Earlier, on April 29, Prime Minister Tarique Rahman told the Jatiya Sangsad that the government would try to provide support for three months by identifying farmers affected by heavy rainfall in the haor areas. Disaster Management and Relief Minister Asadul Habib Dulu, Agriculture, and Fisheries and Livestock Minister Mohammed Aminur Rashid and lawmakers from haor region Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Deputy Speaker Barrister Kayser Kamal, State Minister for Textiles and Jute Md Shariful Alam, Dr Osman Faruque, Fazlur Rahman, Lutfozzaman Babar, Kamruzzaman Kamrul, Nurul Islam, Kalim Uddin Ahmed Milon and Mohammad Koysor Ahmed were present at the meeting.
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