Staff Reporter
The Government has promised to feed 2.5 million people left destitute by the super cyclone SIDR on November 15 for at least next four months, while a US Navy ship yesterday anchored off the Chittagong coast to join the relief operation.
Adviser for Food and Disaster Management Tapan Chowdhury yesterday said the Government would distribute 33 pounds of rice per month to each of the estimated 2.5 million people in need, many of them in crowded relief camps, starting from December 1. The programme will last at least four months, he added. [Read more]