Each martyr family to get Tk 30 lakh: Prof Yunus
Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus today said each martyr's family will get Tk 30 lakh from the government, reiterating that his government will rehabilitate families of all mass-uprising martyrs and bear the full expanses of the treatment of all the injured.
In a televised address to the nation, he said the Health Ministry has already prepared a comprehensive list for the long-term and expensive treatment of the injured and looking after the families of the martyrs.
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"Families of all the martyrs of the mass uprising will be rehabilitated and no one will be left out," he said.
At the beginning of his speech, the chief adviser remembered the millions of martyrs of the 1971 Liberation War and all those martyrs of the uprising of the student-worker-mass movement against 'fascism' in July-August.
Prof Yunus said the government took steps to bring corneas from Nepal for the treatment of those who lost their eyesight suffering pellet injury in the mass uprising.
The chief adviser said some deserving injured have also been sent abroad for better treatment under government initiatives.
No martyrs and injured students and workers of the July uprising will be left out of rehabilitation plans and healthcare, he said, adding that this is the commitment made by the interim government.
Prof Yunus said the July Shaheed Smriti Foundation, formed to preserve the memory of the martyrs of this mass uprising, has started its works with full momentum. The government has given a grant of TK 100 crore to this foundation.
He said the social welfare ministry has sent a proposal of $5 million allocation to the World Bank through the Economic Relations Division to ensure the rehabilitation of the families of the martyrs and the best treatment of the injured in the July-August revolution.
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