The social welfare minister, Enamul Haque Mostafa Shahid, said on Thursday that Tk 360 crore was given to 1.50 lakh freedom fighters at Tk 2,000 per head in a month under a programme to provide honorarium in the current fiscal year.
'The programme would continue in future,' he said in reply to a question from treasury bench member Shafiqur Rahman Chowdhury in parliament.
Responding to another question from the same lawmaker, Shahid also said the social welfare department is providing allowances to 2.86 lakh helpless and disabled poor people in the country.
Answering to a query from Awami League lawmaker Apu Ukil, the minister said the department is also providing stipends to 18,620 poor disabled students.
Source : New Age
