Aid available for all journos in need Says info minister Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent Information Minister Hasan Mahmud yesterday said government aid is available for all destitute journalists, even those who criticise the government. "The state is for everyone. If the journalists, who criticise the Awami League-government, fall in the destitute category and come under our policy, this aid is open for them too. We've implemented it," said the minister. He said this at a cheque distribution event at the Press Institute of Bangladesh in the capital. A total of 200 journalists and their families were given Tk 2 crore 8 lakh and 50 thousand in 2020-21 fiscal from Bangladesh Journalists Welfare Trust (BJWT).