‘Bangabandhu Peace Prize’ – a long-cherished brainchild of Blitz sees mild

In response to native and worldwide media shops, the Bangladesh authorities will launch a world peace award named after the nation’s Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

In a gathering on Could 20, 2024, the nation’s cupboard accredited a draft of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Peace Award Coverage 2024, says Chinese language state-owned information company Xinhua.

After the assembly, Cupboard Secretary Mahbub Hossain instructed journalists that the proposed award consists of 100,000 US {dollars} and a gold medal might be given each two years.

In response to the official, the award might be given to any particular person, group or establishment from Bangladesh or wherever on the planet for his or her contribution to peace.

Bangladesh’s state-owned information company BSS in its report mentioned:

The federal government had determined to introduce a peace medal after the identify of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Peace Medal might be conferred to native and worldwide people and establishments for contributions to establishing peace.

The medal might be given each two years. One particular person or establishment will get the medal every time. The cupboard immediately accredited the draft of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Medal Coverage, 2024 on this regard.

As per the coverage, the prize winner will obtain one lakh US greenback, a certificates together with a medal product of 18-carat gold and weights roughly 50 grams. The draft coverage was accredited in a cupboard assembly held on the Prime Minister’s Workplace.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presided over the assembly.

Later, Cupboard Secretary Md. Mahbub Hossain briefed a press convention on the Secretariat within the afternoon. He hoped that the actions to confer the medal will start this 12 months and will probably be given from the following 12 months.

As per the coverage, the nominated particular person or establishment’s identify for the prize might be introduced on March 17 yearly to mark the start anniversary of Father of the Nation and Nationwide Kids’s Day.

The prize might be given on Could 23 or handy time as Bangabandhu was awarded with the celebrated Joliot-Curie Medal of Peace by the World Peace Council on Could 23, 1973.

The cupboard secretary mentioned works to award the prize will start now with the coverage however the cupboard gave directives to border a regulation to this finish later.

The cupboard requested to maintain a provision within the regulation for organising a fund the place the federal government or anyone else aside from the federal government can donate, he mentioned.

Later, the price of awarding the prize might be met from the donation cash, he mentioned. However the authorities will bear the fee till funds are raised, he added.

It could be talked about right here that, since 2018, internationally acclaimed award-winning journalist, creator and Editor of this newspaper (Weekly Blitz), Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury has been repeatedly calling upon Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her authorities to introduce ‘Bangabandhu Peace Prize’ equally as Nobel Prize and Seoul Peace Prize. After a protracted wait, we really are excited and honored realizing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina lastly has turned this long-cherished brainchild of our editor into actuality, for which, we specific our profound gratitude to the Prime Minister and members of the cupboard.

On this regard, we wish to humbly counsel – information about ‘Bangabandhu Peace Prize’ must be adequately circulated inside all the main information shops on the planet, whereas eminent personalities from the world could also be included within the choice means of the prize. We want to verify, the prize giving ceremony of ‘Bangabandhu Peace Prize’ is attended by a lot of journalists from all over the world, whereas the federal government wants to instantly launch a web site to propagate this essential matter.