The first meeting of ‘the national implementation committee for father of nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s platinum birth jubilee celebration’ was held on Monday at the seminar room of the International Mother Language Institute.
Speakers at the closed door meeting of the implementation committee discussed their workplaces descriptively.
Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni, Information Minister Muhammad Hasan Mahmud, Textile and Jute Minister Golam Dastagir Gazi, Trustee of Center for Research and Information (CRI), Radwan Mujib Siddiq, some state ministers, government bureaucrats and committee members, among others, were present at the meeting.
On February 14, the government formed two committees: ‘the national celebration committee for father of nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s platinum birth jubilee celebration,’ with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as President, and ‘the implementation committee,’ with National Professor Mohammad Rafiqul Islam as President.
A joint meeting of the two committees, held on March 20, decided to set up an office of the implementation committee on the 5th floor of the International Mother Language Institute.
Ten subcommittees have also been formed to celebrate Bangabandhu’s 100th birth anniversary for a year, starting March 17, 2020 till March 17, 2021.
The sub committees are for seminars, workshop and discussion arrangements, international works and communication, cultural programs and exhibition arrangements, publications and literature, international publications and translation, sports and international tournament arrangements, media, promotion and documentation, films and documentaries.