People getting benefits from stimulus packages: Tipu, Tipu Munshi, Bangladesh’s minister of commerce, stated today that the COVID-19 pandemic stimulus packages awarded earlier are now being used to serve the people of Bangladesh. He claimed that the government of Bangladesh, led by the vivacious Sheikh Hasina, had achieved achievement by implementing extensive programs through the stimulus packages granted to make a socio-economic recovery from the pandemic’s shocks.
People getting benefits from stimulus packages: Tipu
The Commerce Minister said this while addressing the 38th commerce minister-level meeting at the Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held at Istanbul in Turkey today. Tipu mentioned that the digital system including the mobile banking services have yielded better outcomes and thus become popular in the country in order to materialize the short-term, mid-term and long-term plans under the different social safety nets, said a Commerce Ministry press release.
He said that the government has been implementing some 28 stimulus packages in order to improve the economic capacity of the commoners. The Commerce Minister also said that food stuffs are being distributed among the people free of cost and also at lesser price under the “No one will go hungry” programme of the government.
Mentioning that houses are being built for the homeless people across the country marking the centenary birth celebration of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, he said through implementation of such programme, the economic and social capacity of the people of Bangladesh would be ensured.
The COMCEC session’s theme was “Effective Social Assistance Provision and Socioeconomic Empowerment in the Light of COVID-19 Pandemic,” according to the press release. The 38th edition of COMCEC was formally opened by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the current COMCEC chairman. The ministerial declaration will bring the ministerial conference to a close tomorrow. A three-person delegation is being led by the commerce minister to the conference.