Linkage between the My Village My Town Program and National Institutional Framework of Bangladesh

Abstract

A significant portion of the total population of Bangladesh live in rural areas with lack of various facilities, services and amenities which  in turn persuade the rural urban migration, unemployment, poor socio economic condition. To reduce the disparity among the urban and rural areas as mentioned in section 16 of our nation constitution Government of Bangladesh is going to implement My  Village My Town Program in rural areas. This study tried to link the different sectors of the project with the national institutional  frameworks like National Agriculture Policy 2010, National Rural Development Policy 2001, 7th Five Year Plan 2016-2020, ICT Policy-2018,  National Education Policy-2010, Disaster management Act 2012, BCCSA 2009 & National plan for disaster management 2021-2025. The  aim of this study is to find out whether the existing national legal framework support the different issues mentioned in My Village My  Town projects or any further national legal framework or policy support is needed. The result found that the current national legal  framework supports the every sector of the My Village My Town program. Some important considerations need to be considered while  implementing this project to get optimum result for this project.