The government will distribute 10 kilogrammes of rice for free to each of 1.51 crore poor people in the country ahead of Eid-ul-Azha under the vulnerable group feeding (VGF) program.
Recently, a letter has been sent to all the Deputy Commissioners (DCs) with this allocation from the Directorate of Disaster Management, the officials said.
The government has allotted around 1.52 lakh tonnes of rice for this purpose, they mentioned.
In the letter, a total of around 1.51 crore VGF cards including 87.79 lakh for 492 upazilas of 64 districts, 12.53 lakh for 329 municipalities of category A, B and C and about 1.52 lakh tonnes of VGF rice has been allocated at the rate of 10 kg per card, they mentioned.
The letter also asked the officials to collect the allocated rice by June 20.
According to the allocation conditions, the concerned district administrators will inform the local parliamentarians about the allocation of these VGFs.
The list should be prepared by redistributing the number of VGF cards allocated union and ward wise, according to the 2016 data of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.
This assistance should be given to destitute or very poor people or families. However, priority should be given to the destitute or extremely poor affected by recent floods and other natural calamities.
Besides, a person or family fulfilling at least four of the following conditions will be considered poor or ultra-poor.
These include - a family owning no land or no land other than a house, a family dependent on daily wage earners, a family dependent on the income of female laborers or alms, a family with no earning adult male members, a family where school-going children have to work for income, families with no income earners, families whose husbands are abandoned, separated or divorced women, families whose heads are poor freedom fighters, families whose heads are poor or disabled, families who have not received any micro-loans, families who are victims of natural calamities and are in dire need of food and money and whose family members do not get two meals a day for most of the year.
