DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina categorically said that country’s poverty rate has been reduced to 22.7 percent.

Moreover, the rate of ultra-poverty has decreased to 7.9, she added.

The premier made the assertion in her speech after signing an agreement on annual work-plan at the PMO in city Wednesday noon.

She said that her incumbent government has been working to bring up the country to the row of middle income nations by eradicating poverty.

She hoped that it is not far away to reach the goal.

The PM further said, ‘If we work together, we will meet the target soon. The country will reach to the zenith of successes’.

BDST: 1427 HRS, JULY 01, 2015
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