Govt reconstitutes board of journalists’ welfare trust

The authorities has reconstituted the board of Bangladesh Journalist Welfare Belief.

The Ministry of Recordsdata and Broadcasting this day (6 October) issued a notification on this regard announcing that a 13-member board of trustees has been constituted.

Adviser to the Ministry of Recordsdata and Broadcasting Nahid Islam will serve because the chairman of the board, it added.

Secretary of the Ministry of Recordsdata and Broadcasting will act as vice chairman within the board whereas managing director of Bangladesh Journalist Welfare Belief Mohammad Abdullah will bear his accountability as member secretary.

Per the notification, this board of trustees has been reconstituted for a interval of three years in accordance with the fragment 6 of the Bangladesh Journalist Welfare Belief Act 2014.

Contributors of the Board of Trustees are Necessary Recordsdata Officer (PIO), an officer of Director Overall build nominated from the Put of job of the Top Minister or Chief Adviser, an officer of the Joint Secretary build nominated from the Finance Division, Director Overall of the Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB) Faruk Wasif, Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Recordsdata and Broadcasting (Press), Vice President of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) Khairul Bashar, BFUJ Executive Member Shaheen Hasnat, Particular Correspondent of the Day after day Kalbela Md Alauddin, Assistant Editor of Jamuna Television Mir Mushfiq Ahsan and Ekhon TV Crew Reporter Sazid Arafat.