A total of 223 homeless poor families in three upazilas of Jamalpur district will get houses with two decimals of land as part the government's campaign to bring all such families under the housing scheme.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to inaugurate the distribution of those houses virtually on August 9 from her Ganabhaban residence under the fourth phase of the Ashrayan-2 project.
Deputy Commissioner Md Imran Ahmed in a press briefing at its conference room disclosed the matter this afternoon.
Now, each of the families will get better quality tin-shed semi-pucca house-- a two-room accommodation having a kitchen, a toilet and a veranda-- on two decimals of land.
Under the programme, a total of 124 landless and homeless families will get the asset in Jamalpur sadar upazila, 50 in Sarishabari upazila and 49 families in Islampur upazila.
