Hasan presents cheques to newsmen seeing that assistance during corona pandemic
As part of the government's financial assist with the journalists needing help amid the Coronavirus crisis and in addition members of the family who died of the condition, Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Tuesday distributed cheques among newsmen and victims' family members to help them tide over their problems.
Hasan, also the chairman of Bangladesh Journalist Welfare Trust, distributed the cheques in a function in the seminar bedroom of Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB) found in the city.
Terming Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina seeing that journalists friendly, the minister said the government beneath the powerful leadership of the premier happens to be conducting the most significant ever relief operation in the annals of the country.
"About seven crore people of the country have previously come under the government's assistance programme in a variety of ways. Such a big incident hardly ever happened in the history of Bangladesh. The premier also gave directives to take journalists, who've fallen in crisis during the pandemic, under particular assistance," said Hasan, as well Awami League joint standard secretary.
Terming journalists as the front fighters during the ongoing epidemic, the minister explained, "Journalists, who've recently turn into jobless, remained away of jobs and so are not having their wages for lengthy, would come beneath the special assistance programme with each obtaining Tk 10,000."
He said the particular assistance will be given as a good crisis-time aid to at least one 1,500 journalists irrespective of difference of viewpoint who have fallen in financial meltdown as a result of coronavirus pandemic found in the first period. The various other journalists would receive the assistance in phases, he added.
Besides, he said, a complete of 199 journalists and their members of the family would get standard financial the help of the Journalists Welfare Trust value about Tk 1,69,25,000 under 2019-2020 fiscal year.
The minister gave thanks to the leaders of journalists unions to help make the lists according to his directives without seeing the thoughts or opinions of beneficiaries.
He said many journalists have been affected by coronavirus and some of them died.
Later, the minister handed over cheques for Tk 3 lakh to each victim's family including later photographer M Mizanur Rahman of the daily Bangladesh Khabor, late personnel reporter Aslam Rahman of the daily Bhorer Kagoj and later Humayun Kabir Khokan, chief reporter of the daily Somoyer Alo.
Besides, the minister also distributed handful of cheques to journalists at the function.
Bangladesh Government Union of Journalists (BFUJ) president Molla Jalal, Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) president Quddus Afrad and standard secretary Sajjad Alam Khan Tapu, amongst others, spoke in the ending up in Press Institute of Bangladesh Director Standard and also managing director of the trust Zafar Wazed on the chair.
Member secretary of the trust Md Mahfuzul Haque was first also within the function.
Besides, journalists Golam Mohiuddin Khan and late Khokan's wife Sharmin Sultana Rina also spoke with respect to the cheques receivers.
