Bangladesh Film Artistes Welfare Trust Act, 2021 places in JS
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4th April, 2021 05:35:28
Bangladesh Film Artistes’ Welfare Trust Act-2021 was placed in the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) on Sunday to ensure the overall welfare of the actors and actresses of the film industry.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud placed the bill in the House with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair.
Piloting the bill, the minister said, “The law has been formulated in line with the prime minister’s directive to provide financial assistance to insolvent and incapable artistes for their welfare and treatment as well.”
The proposed law also suggests helping the dependents of an artiste after his or her death, he said, adding there would be a 13-member board of trustee with the information minister as its chairman while a government-appointed managing director will act as its executive officer.
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Make more films on Liberation War to let people know true history: PM
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DHAKA, Jan 17, 2021 (BSS) – Stating that her government would do everything necessary for survival of the country’s cinema industry, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged all concerned to make more films on the Liberation War as the generation after generation could know the real history of Bangladesh’s emergence as an independent nation.
“I request you all concerned to make more films on the Liberation War as the generation after generation can know the real history of our victory as the history was distorted with the assassination of the Father of the Nation on August 15, 1975,” she said.