SAPNA package program to be expanded: Chumki

Staff Reporter :State Minister of Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroj Chumki on Thursday said that ‘SAPNA Package’ a poverty alleviation programme of non-government organisation ‘DORP’ will help decrease poverty in the country significantly in the coming years.She expressed hope that the country will be middle-income country under the programme within 2021.”The government has taken decision for extending the ‘SAPNA Package’ to reduce the poverty to fulfill the target of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG),” she added. The minister made the disclosure as a chief guest in a headway discussion programme titled ‘Maternity Allowance to Reduce Poverty: SAPNA Package’ at Directorate of Women Affairs in the capital on Thursday which was presided over Shahin Ahmed Chowdhury, Director General of Directorate of Women Affairs.According to the proposed budget fiscal year 2016-17, the maternity allowance consumers to be reached around five lakh to ensure the social safety for the mother, she mentioned. She urged the people to change the attitude abode the women and to respect them to ensure the facility to become more skilled the women. The Social Assistance Program for five basis with ‘SAPNA’ Package Programme is implementing in 10 districts of seven divisions under the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs. NGO DORP is coordination and cooperation in charge of the programme. Nasima Begum, ndc and Bikash Kumar Das, Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs, Mohammad Jahangir Hossain, ndc, Director of the Department of Women’s Affairs Directorate, Parveen Sultana, Director of ‘SAPNA Package’ programe, AHM Noman, inventor and founder of DORP, Women Affairs Officers of Ulipur and Kaliganj Upazila Shahna Akhter and Shahana Akhter respectively were present the programe among other.