100-day job scheme starts for 20 lakh poor
The government yesterday launched a 100-day employment generation scheme for 20 lakh hardcore poor across the country to mitigate their sufferings during lean season. Under the programme, one person of a family will get Tk 100 per working day against his/her labour to be utilised in different types of projects like canal digging, embankment building, earth filling, pond cleaning and compost making. The total number of people brought under the programme worth Tk 2,000 crore is about 5 percent of the total number of extreme poor at over 4 crore.