<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday urged the people of the country to remain alert against the evil forces so they can't grip Bangladesh again.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“The people of the country have to remain alert and cautious so that dark clutch (of evil force) must never again grip Bangladesh,” she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The prime minister said this while handing over the keys of 5000 government-built houses, ‘Bir Nibash’, to the underprivileged freedom ighters of the country. A total of 30,000 houses are being built across the country under the project.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Liberation War Affairs Ministry organised the programme at Osmani Memorial Auditorium with its minister AKM Mozammel Huq in the chair.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hasina said that Bangladesh is advancing with unstoppable speed and no one will be able to stop it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Bangladesh will be built with the spirit of the Liberation War. We will build Bangladesh as non-communal country imbued with the ideology of the Liberation War and that is our aim,” she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She said that under the leadership of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman the people had sacrificed their blood to attain Independence in 1971.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“This is our country, we have gained our Independence sacrificing our blood under the leadership of the Father of the Nation. We will build this country as the Golden Bangladesh of the Father of the Nation, Inshallah,” she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Liberation War Affairs Secretary Khaja Miah also spoke at the programme.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A documentary related to the project was screened at the programme.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Tk 4,122-cr project - house construction for poor freedom fighters - was approved by the Ecnec on March 21 last year.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Under the project 30,000 ‘Bir Nibash’ (houses) for poor freedom fighters, Birangana (women freedom fighters), widows and children of martyred and late freedom fighters will be built for their socioeconomic uplift.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Named as Bir Nibas, the 635-square-foot-houses, with two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a dining room and a kitchen will be built for poor freedom fighters on their family homesteads.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This project is an initiative of PM Hasina seeking to uplift the socio-economic status of poverty-stricken freedom fighters, widows and children of late heroic freedom fighters.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Construction of each house costs Tk14,10, 382, according to official sources.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Deputy Commissioners of Narail, Madaripur, Gopalganj, Gazipur and Kishoreganj, on behalf of the Prime Minister handed over the keys in their respective areas. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>