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Not a single person will starve in Bangladesh: PM Hasina Sheikh Hasina
PID PM Hasina attending the programme through video conferencing

Not a single person will starve in Bangladesh: PM Hasina

Bangladesh Live News | @banglalivenews | 16 Oct 2020, 05:29 pm

Dhaka, 16 October: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that not a single person in the country will starve or be homeless. 

"Every human being will get medical care, and no one will suffer from malnutrition. We are cooperating through our huge social security program. Along with food, nutrition is ensured, people are entitled to good health - that is our goal," she said.

"We will establish the hunger-free, poverty-free and golden Bangladesh that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman dreamt of," she added.

She said this while addressing an international seminar organized by the Ministry of Agriculture on the occasion of World Food Day 2020, in a video conference from the Prime Minister's official residence, Ganobhaban, on Friday.

Sheikh Hasina said the government is working to ensure food security.

"Arrangements have been made to deliver food to every person's house. We will continue to distribute free food among the poor. We have only one thought about Bangladesh - the father of the nation wanted to build a hunger-free, poverty-free, developed and prosperous Bangladesh, we are working towards that goal. Inshallah we will be able to achieve that."

The Prime Minister said the people of Bangladesh are very brave, they have the ability to deal with any situation.

"We are dealing with storms and floods along with Corona. This is how we have to live. Don't leave even an inch of land, plant trees, plant fruits, plant vegetables and increase your production by planting whatever you can."

PM Hasina said the coronavirus has shaken the whole world. "Whenever there is an outbreak of the corona virus, we place the greatest importance on food production. We need to increase food production, we have to have food security. This is because the coronavirus could cause a worldwide famine. We are giving incentives so that the people of our country do not suffer in any way so that it does not have an impact on Bangladesh. We are giving special importance to mechanization of agriculture."

Among others present were Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister Ahmed Kaikaus and Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim.