Journos to get Wage Board Award in due time, says Mahmud

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud assured newsmen on Monday that the new Wage Board Award for newspaper and news agency journalists and employees would be announced in due time, reports BSS.
"From right today I will begin work to get the gazette on the 9th Wage Board Award," the minister said while exchanging views with leaders of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ), and Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) at the National Press Club in the city.
Mahmud, also the ruling Awami League's publicity and publication secretary, said he has also discussed the journalists' housing issue with the officials concerned.
"I express the hope that all the problems of journalists and media will be solved soon," he said.
Mahmud said he began his works from the very first day in office for the betterment of journalists as well as the media as "my top priorities are to work for the welfare of newsmen and freedom of media".
The minister said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government was always friendly to journalists and even those who wrote and spoke against Awami League got all kinds of assistance from her.
"She helped as well the cultural personalities who are against the government," Mahmud said.