{"id":1232,"date":"2013-05-22T13:48:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T07:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartabangla.com\/english\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2013-05-22T13:48:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T07:48:27","slug":"families-of-121-savar-victims-get-financial-help-from-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/families-of-121-savar-victims-get-financial-help-from-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Families of 121 Savar victims get financial help from PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Pm-in-distribute.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1233\" alt=\"Pm in distribute\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Pm-in-distribute.png\" width=\"271\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>BartaBangla Desk :: <\/b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today distributed cheques for financial assistance to the families of 121 garment workers, who were killed in the eight-storey Rana Plaza building collapse in Savar on April 24.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister handed over the cheques among the families of the Savar tragedy victims at the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office (PMO) here this morning.<\/p>\n<p>While distributing cheques, Sheikh Hasina consoled the ill-fated family members of the Savar building collapse victims. A heart-rending scene was created at that time when they (the family members of the victims) burst into tears.<\/p>\n<p>Labour and Employment Minister Raziuddin Ahmed Razu, Home Minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir, Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan, Chief of Army Staff General Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan, PM&#8217;s Principal Secretary Shaikh Md Wahid- Uz-Zaman, Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad, ex-FBCCI president AK Azad and BGMEA President Atiqul Islam were present on the occasion, among others.<\/p>\n<p>On May 16, the Prime Minister distributed cheques for financial assistance among 116 family members of 100 victims in the first phase at her office.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, officials and employees of the Shipping Ministry donated Taka 1 crore to the &#8220;PM&#8217;s Relief and Welfare Fund&#8221; for the Savar building collapse victims.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of them, Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan handed over a cheque for the amount to the Prime Minister at the PMO.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, a presentation on strategic plans taken for the development of Biman Bangladesh Airlines and a view- exchange meeting were held at the PMO.<\/p>\n<p>Managing Director of Biman Kevin Steeles apprised the Prime Minister of various steps taken for the development of the national flag carrier.<\/p>\n<p>Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Muhammad Faruq Khan and Principal Secretary Shaikh Md Wahid-Uz-Zaman were present at the meeting, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BartaBangla Desk :: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today distributed cheques for financial assistance to the families of 121 garment workers, who were killed in the eight-storey Rana Plaza building collapse in Savar on April 24. The Prime Minister handed over the cheques among the families of the Savar tragedy victims at the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}