Prime Minister Sheikh Hasin has provided one-time savings certificates, medical expenses, government jobs and flats to the families of those injured and killed in the August 21 grenade attack.
The prime minister has given everything they need to survive well through the Bangabandhu Memorial Trust.
According to Bangabandhu Memorial Trust, there are 500 victims of the August 21 grenade attack. Of them, 108 people who are not well-off are given grants worth Tk5,000-Tk10,000 every month through bank accounts.
Victims’ children are given scholarships and also offered jobs once they are done with their education.
SM Kamrul Islam Litu, an official of Bangabandhu Memorial Trust, told Dhaka Tribune that many of the victims are still carrying splinters on their bodies and cannot live or work normally like any other human being. For this, the prime minister has bought savings certificates worth Tk5-10 lakh for 220 such people.
Also, if anyone, attacked on August 21, wants any kind of help or grant including medical treatment, the prime minister provides it from the trust or from her own fund.
On behalf of the trust, in August 2018, 31 people were given 1500 sq ft flats in a government project in Joynagar, Mirpur Section 13, and almost all of them are living there.
Selina Akhter, a victim of the grenade attack who lives there, said: “In 2004, I used to work as an MLSS at the National University. But as my heart wanted, I joined the party program on Bangabandhu Avenue that day, and eventually lost my job.”
She added: “I kind of became helpless, as a grenade sprinter pierced into my brain, I lost my job, and was unable to even get treatment. My parents sold everything they had to support me and earlier, I lost my husband in 2002.
“In this situation Bangabandhu Trust stood beside me. Now, my daughter who is studying honours can continue her education with the scholarship she receives every month.”
According to the trust, 100 injured in the August 21 incident are given various sums of money for medical expenses, including the purchase of medicines every month.
Besides, many of the injured have been nominated as Members of Parliament (MP). Some women leaders have been made MPs in reserved seats.
Many who are financially well-off have been allotted plots in Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha’s (Rajuk) Purbachal and Jhilmil projects under the prime minister's quota.