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The disclosure came from a regular meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.
In the meeting, the government gave approval to a draft policy put up by the ministry of liberation war affairs in this regard.
After the meeting, Cabinet Secretary M Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan told journalists that the enhanced allowance would be applicable for all four categories of gallantry award recipient war heroes of 1971.
He said, “The monthly allowance of the Birshresthas has been ascertained Tk 12,000, Biruttam Tk 10,000, Birbikram Tk 8,000 and Birprateek Tk 6,000.”
The cabinet secretary said, so far, 459 gallantry award recipient Freedom Fighters who are members of the armed forces, BGB, Police and Ansar are already receiving same allowance from 2011.
Now, remaining 217 gallantry award recipient Freedom Fighters out of the forces in uniform would come under the purview of the allowance, he said.
The cabinet secretary said in the cases of the deceased Freedom Fighters, their sons or daughters or brothers and sisters will receive the allowance.
The amount of the allowance will be deposited to the bank and the recipients will draw the allowance through a passbook to be issued by the government.
The cabinet also decided to increase the current special allowance given to the Freedom Fighters from Tk 2,000 and asked the ministry to figure out the amount, he added.
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