Munshiganj is among the top 10 richest countries in the country. This information was found in the latest income and expenditure survey survey of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) in 2016.
Recently, this report was officially published. For the first time, there was a picture of the situation of the district wise rich and poor situation.
The people of Narayanganj are the best. On average, 2.16 people per 100 people in this district are poor. Everyone else lives on the poverty line.
7 out of 10 districts of less than 10 districts of Dhaka division, Munshiganj 3 percent to 1.1 percent, Madaripur 3.7 percent of Gazipur 6.7 percent in Faridpur 7 percent 7 percent in Dhaka and 10 percent in Narsingdi. Munshiganj is in second place as he is.
The poverty rate among the three other districts in the top 10 list is 10.3 percent in Brahmanbaria. Moulvibazar 11 percent and Sylhet 13 percent.
According to the BBS survey, the most poorer areas of the country are North Bengal, the most poor people in the Rangpur division. Five of the 10 districts of the highest poverty rate are in Rangpur division. Apart from Kurigram, the list is in Rangpur, Dinajpur, Gaibandha and Lalmonirhat.
Among them, poverty rate was 64.3 percent in Dinajpur, 46.7 percent in Gaibandha, 43.8 percent in Rangpur and 42 percent in Lalmonirhat.
In the top list, there is another poverty-stricken country in Bandarban and Khagrachari districts of Chittagong Hill Tracts. The other three districts in this list are Jamalpur Kishoreganj and Magura.
71 percent of the population of every 100 people in Kurigram district are poor. They can not afford enough food for their family members. Again, there is less chance of spending daily needs such as health education clothing.
The poorest people in Kurigram district. The poverty rate of this district is 70.8 percent. Somewhere in the district, poverty rate has surpassed 77 percent. But there is no poverty rate below 64 percent.
Asked about this, Dipankar Roy, project director of the survey, said, "This is the first time the poverty line situation is highlighted. We wanted to see whether there is poverty or poverty pockets at the regional level. It is seen that some areas are more poor.
He also said that the government can take various programs including policies and policies in the poor areas of this survey. According to the expenditure assessment survey of the sector, the overall poverty rate in the last six years has decreased from 31 percent to 24.3 percent.
Poverty rates too low. In the year 2016, there were 12.9 percent of the extreme poverty rate. According to BBS, the country's population is currently 16 million. As there are 3 million 93 lax poor people in the country. The number of poor is 28 million.