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THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 2025
Raise in freedom fighters' allowance under review: PM Hasina

Bangladesh

UNB
08 May, 2024, 09:35 pm
Last modified: 08 May, 2024, 10:07 pm

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Raise in freedom fighters' allowance under review: PM Hasina

She said currently there are 94, 513 living valiant freedom fighters in the country while the number of dead freedom fighters' heir is 1,09,030.

UNB
08 May, 2024, 09:35 pm
Last modified: 08 May, 2024, 10:07 pm
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Sketch: TBS
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Sketch: TBS

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday (8 May) said an increase in the allowance of the valiant freedom fighters is under review.

She made the statement while responding to a question from Independent MP Abdur Rouf ( Kusthia-4) during PM's question-answer session in Parliament.

She said that currently there are 94, 513 living valiant freedom fighters in the country while the number of dead freedom fighters' heir is 109030.

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She mentioned that apart from the monthly honorarium, the freedom fighters are given a festival allowance (Eid Bonus), Bengali New Year allowance and Victory Day allowance.

Two festival allowances are paid at the rate of Tk10,000 and the Bengali New Year allowance at the rate of Tk2,000.

On the occasion of Victory Day, only living valiant freedom fighters are getting Tk5,000.

The prime minister said that from Bangladesh Freedom Fighters Welfare Trust a monthly honorarium is given to the war-wounded freedom fighters in 4 categories from a maximum of Tk45,000 to a minimum of Tk27,000.

She mentioned that Tk30,000 per month per family of martyred freedom fighters and Tk35,000 per month per family of great martyrs of Birsreshtha are given.

Among the gallantry award winners, Bir Uttam gets Tk25,000, Bir Bikram Tk25,000 and Bir Pratik Tk20,000.

 Hasina said that since the last financial year 2021-2022, the amount of honorarium increased from Tk12,000 to Tk 20,000 for some 192500 valiant freedom fighters.

She said that when Awami Leagur came to power after 21 years in 1996, her government took up the programmes for providing honorarium for the freedom fighters.

The programme  of providing honorary allowance to the brave freedom fighters started with Tk300 for some 40,000 freedom fighters.

Later in the fiscal year 2007-08 it was Tk600 each for one lakh brave freedom fighters. After the formation of the Bangladesh Awami League government, some one lakh freedom fighters got Tk900/- per month in the financial year 2008-09 and 1,25,000 at the rate of Tk1,500/- per month in the financial year 2009-10 and 1,50,000 at the rate of Tk2,000 per month in the financial year 2010-11.

In the financial year 2012-13, the honorarium was again increased to Tk3,000 and about 2 lakh brave freedom fighters got that.

Later in the fiscal year 2014-15, the honorarium was increased to Tk5,000 per month.

The honorarium was increased to Tk8,000 per month in the financial year 2015-16, Tk10,000 per month in the financial year 2016-17 and Tk12,000 per month in the financial year 2019-20.

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