Extend every assistance to flood-hit people: PM asks govt officials | The Business Standard
Skip to main content
  • Home
  • Economy
    • Aviation
    • Bazaar
    • Budget
    • Industry
    • NBR
    • RMG
    • Corporates
  • Stocks
  • Analysis
  • World+Biz
  • Sports
  • Features
    • Book Review
    • Brands
    • Earth
    • Explorer
    • Fact Check
    • Family
    • Food
    • Game Reviews
    • Good Practices
    • Habitat
    • Humour
    • In Focus
    • Luxury
    • Mode
    • Panorama
    • Pursuit
    • Wealth
    • Wellbeing
    • Wheels
  • Epaper
    • GOVT. Ad
  • More
    • Subscribe
    • Videos
    • TBS Graduates
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • COVID-19
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Tech
    • Magazine
  • বাংলা
The Business Standard

Thursday
September 21, 2023

Sign In
Subscribe
  • Home
  • Economy
    • Aviation
    • Bazaar
    • Budget
    • Industry
    • NBR
    • RMG
    • Corporates
  • Stocks
  • Analysis
  • World+Biz
  • Sports
  • Features
    • Book Review
    • Brands
    • Earth
    • Explorer
    • Fact Check
    • Family
    • Food
    • Game Reviews
    • Good Practices
    • Habitat
    • Humour
    • In Focus
    • Luxury
    • Mode
    • Panorama
    • Pursuit
    • Wealth
    • Wellbeing
    • Wheels
  • Epaper
    • GOVT. Ad
  • More
    • Subscribe
    • Videos
    • TBS Graduates
    • Thoughts
    • Splash
    • Bangladesh
    • Supplement
    • Infograph
    • Archive
    • COVID-19
    • Long Read
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Tech
    • Magazine
  • বাংলা
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Extend every assistance to flood-hit people: PM asks govt officials

Bangladesh

BSS
27 July, 2020, 05:45 pm
Last modified: 27 July, 2020, 08:55 pm

Related News

  • Bangladesh’s application to join RCEP awaits PM’s nod
  • CERF allocates $8 million for Rohingyas in Bangladesh
  • Airport to Farmgate in 10 minutes from Sunday
  • PM's presence at BRICS enhances country’s image: Ex-UGC chair
  • Universal Pension Scheme to ensure better life for everyone: PM

Extend every assistance to flood-hit people: PM asks govt officials

Simultaneously, the prime minister asked the government officials to be cautious in case of distributing relief materials amid the Covid-19 pandemic

BSS
27 July, 2020, 05:45 pm
Last modified: 27 July, 2020, 08:55 pm
Photo: Md Ali Ashraf Bhuiyan
Photo: Md Ali Ashraf Bhuiyan

With an apprehension of prolonged flood across the country, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked the government officials to remain prepared for extending all sorts of support to the flood-hit people if the deluge lingers.

"Every kind of assistance would have to be extended to the flood-hit people if the ongoing flooding is prolonged," Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam said quoting the Prime Minister as saying.

Briefing newsmen after the regular weekly meeting at his Secretariat office Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam said that the Prime Minister gave them a clear-cut instruction of taking all-out preparations to tackle any situation as there was an apprehension that the flooding may be protracted.

He said the prime minister asked the government officials particularly the field-level ones to stay prepared all the time staying at their workstations to face any situation if the deluge is prolonged.

Simultaneously, the prime minister asked the government officials to be cautious in case of distributing relief materials amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

The directives came from a regular weekly cabinet meeting with the Prime Minister in the chair this morning, a day after she gave similar instruction to her party leaders and activists.

The premier joined the meeting from her official Ganabhaban residence here while cabinet members and secretaries were connected from the Secretariat through video-conference.

The cabinet secretary said, "The Prime Minister herself supervises it (the flood situation and relief activities)."

The Prime Minister directed the local administrations to take prompt measures to accommodate the flood affected people to nearby schools, colleges and madrasahs in case of not having sufficient flood shelters, and give them all sorts of relief materials, particularly water purifying tablets and oral saline and make sure regular vaccination of their domestic animals, he said.

Anwarul said field-level government employees of the ministries concerned particularly education, health, and agriculture have already been asked to stay at their workstations during the flood period.

The cabinet secretary said despite having an in-built mechanism in the field-level to tackle flood, extra efforts are being made to this end as the ongoing flooding is predicted to be lingered.

About relief, he said that they have an earlier preparation regarding the stockpile of relief materials, adding, "There will be no problem with distribution of relief materials as we have plenty of relief goods in stockpile."

Replying to a question, he said that the State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief made every detail of their preparations to face the possible prolonged flood.

The prime minister asked the agriculture minister to take measures for cashing on the advantage of flood for bumper production of Aman and Ropa Aman (T Aman), the cabinet secretary said citing his experience that bumper productions of paddy were seen after the flooding of 1988 and 1998 when he was a field-level official.

Photo: Md Ali Ashraf Bhuiyan
Photo: Md Ali Ashraf Bhuiyan

"If Aman production is hampered by the ongoing flood, it could be covered up by bumper production of Ropa Aman following the deluge that makes soil fertile," Anwarul said quoting the premier.

He said that the country's northern region is likely to witness a bumper production of Aman paddy due to having sufficient rain and water, although the flood made havoc on the crops of low-lying lands.

The Agriculture Minister informed the cabinet regarding the ministry's measures about production of crops (Aman and T Aman) during the flood and post-flood periods, he continued.

The government's top bureaucrat said that the Prime Minister has asked the authorities concerned to take preparations in advance to rehabilitate the flood-victims after the deluge.

Top News

assistance / flood-hit / people / PM / Govt officials

Comments

While most comments will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive, moderation decisions are subjective. Published comments are readers’ own views and The Business Standard does not endorse any of the readers’ comments.

Top Stories

  • US Embassy Spokesperson Bryan Schiller speaks with reporters on Thursday (21 September). Photo: UNB
    US delegation to arrive in Dhaka on 7 October for pre-election assessment
  • European Union flags fly outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium September 19, 2019/ Reuters
    EU isn't sending full team of observers for next JS polls
  • Representational image. Photo: Collected
    Govt now gives permission to import 6 crore eggs

MOST VIEWED

  • US Embassy Spokesperson Bryan Schiller speaks with reporters on Thursday (21 September). Photo: UNB
    US delegation to arrive in Dhaka on 7 October for pre-election assessment
  • Photo: Courtesy
    US to collaborates with Bangladesh to tackle challenges faced by foreign firms: Envoy
  • Photo: UNB
    Committed to supporting Bangladeshi partners for a 'more resilient and prosperous' future: USAID
  • Photo: TBS
    Chattogram Zoo acquires hippos, gives tigers to Rangpur Zoo
  • US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas. TBS Sketch
    US ready to extend support to ensure free, fair, and peaceful election in Bangladesh: Haas
  • Representational image. Photo: Collected
    Rohingyas shouldn't be punished for the action taken by Myanmar: US ambassador

Related News

  • Bangladesh’s application to join RCEP awaits PM’s nod
  • CERF allocates $8 million for Rohingyas in Bangladesh
  • Airport to Farmgate in 10 minutes from Sunday
  • PM's presence at BRICS enhances country’s image: Ex-UGC chair
  • Universal Pension Scheme to ensure better life for everyone: PM

Features

Mountain gorillas are vulnerable species, only found in the willderness. Photo: Muntasir Akash

Against all odds: My encounters with mountain gorillas in Rwanda

2h | Earth
Photo: Saqlain Rizve

The quiet afterglow of Dhaka's overhead water tanks

7h | Panorama
Photo: Shovy Zibran

Maachh-bhaat for the soul: How Mariam nourishes hearts on the streets of Dhaka

1d | Panorama
Team Bored Tunnelers is a cross-institutional team consisting of six board members: (from let to right) Talha Zubair, Shaekh Mohammad Shithil, Fahin Uddin, Imran Khan, Shahriar Iqbal Mahim and Sibly Noman. Photo: Courtesy

Meet the Bangladesh team in Elon Musk's Not-a-Boring Competition finals

1d | Pursuit

More Videos from TBS

Bank deposits increased by Tk 74,000 crore in April-June

Bank deposits increased by Tk 74,000 crore in April-June

2h | TBS Economy
Truefitt & Hill Bangladesh: From Buckingham Palace to Gulshan

Truefitt & Hill Bangladesh: From Buckingham Palace to Gulshan

3h | TBS Stories
Iran's disabled painter Fatemeh finally meets Cristiano Ronaldo

Iran's disabled painter Fatemeh finally meets Cristiano Ronaldo

4h | TBS SPORTS
Why are Japanese women unwilling to have children?

Why are Japanese women unwilling to have children?

5h | TBS World
EMAIL US
[email protected]
FOLLOW US
WHATSAPP
+880 1847416158
The Business Standard
  • About Us
  • Contact us
  • Sitemap
  • Privacy Policy
  • Comment Policy
Copyright © 2023
The Business Standard All rights reserved
Technical Partner: RSI Lab

Contact Us

The Business Standard

Main Office -4/A, Eskaton Garden, Dhaka- 1000

Phone: +8801847 416158 - 59

Send Opinion articles to - [email protected]

For advertisement- [email protected]