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PM extends help again to Nayeem Gauhar’s family
DHAKA, June 26, 2020 (BSS) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has once again extended help to the family of Independence Award- recipient late lyricist (geeti kobi) Nayeem Gauhar by offering financial assistance of Taka 5 lakh.
“The prime minister also instructed the authorities concerned to hand over a plot or flat to the family of Nayeem Gawhar immediately,” PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told BSS today.
He said the prime minister sent a donation of Taka 5 lakh through her officials to the Nayeem Gauhar’s ailing wife Rizia Gauhar at her Uttara residence yesterday (Thursday).
The press secretary said the prime minister in 2016 gave financial assistance of Taka 25 lakh to Nayeem Gauhar’s family and directed the authorities concerned to give a plot or flat to them.
“But Nayeem Gauhar’s family is yet to get the plot or flat due to various complexities. When the premier’s attention was drawn to this issue, she immediately sent Taka 5 lakh to Gauhar’s family,” he said.
Karim said the prime minister simultaneously instructed the authorities concerned to hand over a plot or flat to the family of Nayeem Gawhar immediately.
Gauhar’s daughter actor Ilora Gauhar expressed her heartfelt gratitude to the prime minister for standing beside their family again.
She said her 76-year-old mother is now bed-ridden as she has been suffering from cancer and parkinson diseases.
Nayeem Gauhar died of old-age complications at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Hospital on October 7 in 2015 at the age of 93.
He was admitted to the BSMMU Hospital at the instruction of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. In 2000, he underwent an open heart surgery with the overall cooperation of the prime minister.
Gauhar was conferred with ‘Swadhinata Purashkar- 2012’ (Independence Award), the highest national award, for his outstanding contributions to the Liberation War.
He wrote numerous patriotic songs which provided much courage for the freedom-loving people during the Liberation War.
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