‘FFs to get free treatment, medicine from this month’

Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq said on Saturday the present government will start providing free treatment and medicine to freedom fighters (FF) from this month (July), reports BSS.

"The present government has increased their facilities on different occasions. From this fiscal, the freedom fighters will get two more bonuses, one on Victory Day and another on Bengali New Year," he said.

The minister came up with the information while addressing a rally after inaugurating the Muktijoddha Complex at Sirajdikhan Upazila in Munshiganj.

"We are also taking initiatives to give the graves of Freedom Fighters an identical design. Monuments will also be built on same design in all the battle and killing fields.

Plans have been taken to include exams of hundred numbers in BCS, of which 50 will be allotted for historical events from 1948 to 1970, and another 50 will be allotted for the history of War of Liberation," Huq added.