Implement 30pc FFs' quota

PM asks PSC

4 April 2010, 18:00 PM

Unb, Dhaka

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has directed Public Service Commission (PSC) and other authorities concerned to properly implement the 30 percent quota facilities for freedom fighters' sons and daughters in government jobs. The PM gave the order when an 11-member delegation of Bangladesh National Rewarded, National Awarded Disabled Freedom Fighters and Shaheed Family Welfare Parishad met her at her office in the city yesterday. During the meeting, the war-maimed freedom fighters, led by the Parishad Chairman Hemayet Uddin Bir Bikram and Secretary General MA Majed, informed her about various problems faced by them and their family members. Hasina gave them a patient hearing and assured them of ensuring the best care of the freedom fighters of the country, said Press Secretary to the PM Abul Kalam Azad. The PM said it is the duty of the government to ensure all necessary facilities for the freedom fighters' families as they are among the greatest sons of the soil. The government will take effective measures to ensure safe and comfortable housing facilities for war wounded freedom fighters in their respective localities. Hasina called on the freedom fighters, their family members and the countrymen to build Bangladesh with the spirit of the 1971 liberation war. She said 39 years have passed since the nation achieved independence under the leadership of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, but the long-cherished economic emancipation of its people has not been attained yet. “Let us work hand in hand and build a modern developed Bangladesh by 2021, the golden jubilee year of the country's independence,” the PM said. State Minister for Liberation War Affairs ABM Tajul Islam, Principal Secretary to the PM MA Karim and Prime Minister's Office Secretary Mollah Waheeduzzaman were also present.