Sajeeb Wazed, ICT adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and chairperson of the Centre for Research and Information (CRI), will declare the Joy Bangla Youth Award 2020 winners through a virtual award-conferring ceremony on Tuesday.
The award ceremony, recognizing the efforts of young visionaries to turn their communities around, will kick off at 8:00pm this year, marking the fourth edition of the ceremony.
The hour-long event will be aired live on three private television channels – Gazi TV, Bijoy TV and ATN News – in addition to its broadcast on the Facebook pages of print, electronic and digital media.
CRI, the ruling Awami League’s research wing, will air the event live on its Facebook page.
Trustee of CRI and Minister of State for Power, Energy, and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid will deliver the welcome speech.
Since its inception in November 2014, Joy Bangla Youth Award, named after the historic pro-liberation slogan “Joy Bangla,” Young Bangla, the youth front of CRI, has been awarding youths and youth organizations whose vision and initiatives catalyzed positive changes in society.
Between 2015 and 2018, Young Bangla awarded 130 youth organizations and many of the award recipients later poised themselves to work at a bigger scale owing to the networking they achieved through the platform.
As in previous years, Young Bangla received applications from more than 600 organizations run by youths aged between 18 and 35 who provide services under the categories of women empowerment, children’s rights, empowerment of specially challenged and underprivileged people, youth development, empowerment of ultra-poor people, anti-drug awareness campaign, activities to deal with Covid-19, environment and climate change, renewable or green energy, healthcare, education and awareness, cultural initiatives and disaster management.
In the first stage, the Joy Bangla Youth Award will be conferred under six categories - women empowerment, children’s rights, empowerment of specially challenged people, empowerment of underprivileged people, empowerment of ultra-poor people and youth development.
In the second stage, the awards will fall under the purview of seven sub-categories - anti-drug awareness campaign, activities to deal with Covid-19, environment and climate change, healthcare, education and awareness, cultural initiatives and disaster management.
Young Bangla set off on November 15, 2014, to directly incorporate the young generation in the country’s development activities geared towards the attainment of the goals of “Vision 2021.”
The organization, carried forward by 50,000 volunteers and 315 organizations, consists of nearly 3,00,000 members.
