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The Role of Government Organizations (GOs) in Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh

The dawn of liberation war led to high economic growth,

eliminating mass poverty in what is now considering the

developing countries. Bangladesh GDP per person in the year

2009 is 1,487. In 1971, 89.7% of humanity lived on less than a

dollar a day, while in 2010, only about 49.6% do.

The government and government organization are endlessly

working to alleviate the poverty by diverse project works, plan

and policy. In the filed of implementation some of constrains

are being made, through they are working for achieving the

propose which is poverty free Bangladesh. For theirs works

however over the years, poverty has, however, declined at a

slow rate.

To gather enormous knowledge of poverty, poverty alleviation as well as government organizations.

To find out the activities of government organizations in poverty alleviation.

To understand the achievement and limitation of government organizations in poverty alleviation.

Objectives of the Study

Poverty:

- Severe deprivation of basic human needs

- It depends not only on income but also on access to services

- It can be absolute poverty and relative poverty

Poverty Alleviation:

- Result of overall economic growth

- Involves improving the living conditions of poor people

Government Organizations:

- Permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of

government

- Responsible for the oversight and administration of specific

functions

Poverty, Poverty Alleviation and GOs

Social Security Programmes under the Department of

Social Welfare:

A. Social Security Programme:

- Allowance Tk. 6.00 crore

B. HR Development Programme:

- Running 85 orphanages

- Disbursed Tk. 37.8 crore

Palli Daridrya Bimochan Foundation (PDBF):

- 95% members are female

- Disbursed Tk. 416.60 crore as loan

Activities of GOs in Poverty Alleviation

Activities of the Department of Cooperatives:

- Milkvita, BSBL, SFDF are made up under this department

- BSBL disbursed & recovered Tk. 38.28 crore & Tk. 32.32

crore

- SFDL Disbursed & recover Tk. 3,516.62 lakh & 2,252.35

lakh

Poverty Reduction and Employment Generation Activities

under Ministry of Women and Children Affairs:

-750,000 distressed & ultra-poor women receiving food

assistance

-Tk. 839.18 lakh has been allocated to distressed & ultra-

poor women

- Tk. 263.51 lakh distributed in 80,000 VGD women &

GPDWC

Abashan Project:

-Implemented at a cost of Tk. 716.00 crore

-54,400 families have been rehabilitated (Up to 30 June, 09)

Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD),

Comilla:

-Tk. 2.57 crore was distributed to 303 women as micro credit

Rural Development Academy (RDA), Bogra:

-Tk. 6.19 crore was provided as loan as microcredit

-TK. 4.38 crore was recovered with the recovery rate 83%

Rural Infrastructure Development Programme: -

-Tk. 4.01crore, Tk.68.16 crore & Tk.20.96 crore disbursed as

credit.

Palli Karma Sahayak Foundation (PKSF):

-Borrowed 7007.003 core taka with the help of 257 co operative

Food Assistance Programme Under the Ministry of Food and

Disaster Management:

-Allocation of food grain for Food for Works programme was 3.60

metric tonnes

-36315 projects are implemented at a cost equivalent to 2.96 lakh

metric tones of food grain

-Distributed 5.25 lakh metric tonnes food grain among 72,90,262

beneficiaries under VGF Programme.

Programmes of the Karmasangsthan Bank for generating

employment for the unemployed youth:

-Distributed Tk. 482.36 crore among 1, 43,943 borrowers

A. Micro-Credit Support for Employment of Voluntarily

Retired/Retrenched Labour/Employees of Mills and Industries:

- Tk. 69.45 crore has been disbursed among 12,777 borrowers

- Tk. 56.11 crore showing recovery rate of 75%

B. Assistance for Agro-based Industries:

-Tk. 39.99 crore distributed among 1622 borrowers

Lack of generating new poverty reduction policy

Lack of transparency and accountability in administration of

government organizations.

Political instability

Corruption

Lack of poverty identification system

Nepotism and biasness in providing assistance

Lack of finance

Improper and delayed implementation of the development project

Lack of proper coordination in development activities

Deterioration of law and order situation

Constraint of GOs in Poverty Alleviation

Make the unemployed manpower efficient by formulating

effective plan

Generating employment opportunities for all

Improvement of law and order situation

Control of Population growth

Entry corruption

Direct involvement of the poor in formulating plan

Introducing effective cooperative system for production and

consumption

Creating micro savings and investment opportunity

Recommendation

Despite considerable thrust on poverty alleviation in all plan

documents ever since the independence of Bangladesh, a

significant number of populations still survive below the

poverty line. It is a constitutional obligation of the

government and governmental organizations to provide a

reasonable living standard for the citizens by alleviating

poverty. The present government and governmental

organizations has, therefore laid special emphasis on

poverty alleviation and pledged to eradicate poverty.

One say shall be come when we achieve the MDG and

achieve a poverty free Bangladseh.

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