Private research organisation Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) and BRAC’s Institute for Governance and Development (BIGD) conducted a research on the number of people migrating to village from city in mid-2020. According to the research findings, at least 16 per cent of poor people left Dhaka during the Covid period and these people left the capital as they could not manage the rising expenses including house rent, medical expenses and transportation cost.
Private research organisation Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) and BRAC’s Institute for Governance and Development (BIGD) conducted a research on the number of people migrating to village from city in mid-2020. According to the research findings, at least 16 per cent of poor people left Dhaka during the Covid period and these people left the capital as they could not manage the rising expenses including house rent, medical expenses and transportation cost.
