<div style="text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed her desire for inclusive housing development in Bangladesh, emphasizing that not only the wealthy should live in flats but also rickshaw pullers, daily labourers, and ordinary working people.&nbsp;</span><br></b></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She shared these views today while speaking at the 61st convention of the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) held at its premises in Dhaka.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Prime Minister highlighted ongoing government initiatives aimed at providing flats for slum dwellers and low-income groups, including those traditionally marginalized such as sweepers, Harijans, and Dalits.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She mentioned that construction projects had already commenced to enable these communities to live healthy, dignified lives affordably.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Highlighting construction of houses for the landless and homeless under the Ashrayan project, the Prime Minister said that 334 upazilas of 21 districts have been declared free of landless and homeless families.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Not even a single family in Bangladesh will be landless or homeless, that is our goal,” she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Prime Minister also spoke about leveraging the intellectual power of the people to build the nation and underscored the importance of embracing modern technologies, such as satellites and nuclear power, to avoid being left behind, reports UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“It doesn't matter what this or that group says. My concern is whether people of my country are doing well, whether they are improving, whether their fate is changing,” the PM said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd/fas</div>