Gazipur deputy commissioner assures homeless widow Archana Shil a house will be built for her

Widow Archana Shil has no house to live in. She met Gazipur Deputy Commissioner (DC) Md Nurul Karim Bhuiyan on Wednesday with a request for a small house to shelter in. After hearing her out, the deputy commissioner assured her that a house would be built for her.

Archana Shil is 55 years old. She is the daughter of Nitai Shil of the Kanaiya area of Ward No. 30 of Gazipur city.

Archana told the deputy commissioner that her husband was a salon worker. He died six years ago, leaving behind two daughters.

With help from neighbours, she married off her two daughters a short while ago. She now survives on food given by others.

Although Archana owns a small piece of land, she cannot build a house for lack of money. She therefore has to stay at one person's house today and another's tomorrow.

Deputy Commissioner Nurul Karim Bhuiyan said men and women of different professions and ages come to him with various problems. Even when big problems cannot be solved, smaller ones are being resolved, and people are benefiting from that.

The deputy commissioner also said people's suffering would lessen if the wealthy in society came forward to help the helpless.