Social Welfare Minister Nuruzzaman Ahmed today
said the government is implementing 54 programmes for the well-being of
people.
“We are implementing various effective programmes to support the vulnerable
people including old-age group through providing monthly allowances,” he told
a seminar at media centre of Bangladesh Secretariat here, an official release
said.
Highlighting the progress and activities of social welfare ministry,
Nuruzzaman said the government has increased 12 times the budgetary
allocation against 54 programmes in the past 15 years.
“In the fiscal year of 2008-09, he said, annual budget of the Social Welfare
Ministry was Taka 1013 crore 31 lakh 54 thousand while the budgetary
allocation rose to Taka 12,216 crore 84 lakh,” he said.
Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha