10-day programme to be broadcast marking Bangabandhu’s birth centenary

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DHAKA, Feb 15, 2021 (BSS) – A 10-day special programme from March 17, 2021
to March 26, 2021 will be broadcast through television channels, online and
social media across the country marking the birth centenary celebration of
Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

The information was reveled today at a coordination meeting of Father of
the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Birth Centenary Celebration
National Implementation Committee at the committee office here, said a press
release.

Chief Coordinator of the National Implementation Committee Dr Kamal Abdul
Naser Chowdhury moderated the meeting.

Dr Chowdhury informed the meeting that as per the directive of Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina, all preparations have already been taken to arrange
the 10-day special programme from March 17 to 26 in 2021.

The programme will be aired on television channels, online and social media
in view of the current situation of Covid-19, he added.

A plan has been taken to hold separate theme based discussion and cultural
event on each day during the 10-day series programme, Dr Chowdhury said.

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud, Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni,
former Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor, State Minister for Foreign
Affairs Md Shahriar Alam, State Minister for Cultural Affairs KM Khalid,
Deputy Minister for Water Resources AKM Enamul Hoque Shameem, Liberation War
Affairs Secretary Tapan Kanti Ghosh, Secondary and Higher Education Division
(SHED) Secretary Md Mahbub Hossain, former secretary Aktari Mamtaz,
Additional Secretary of Information Ministry Md Mzan Ul Alam, Association of
Television Channel Owners (ATCO) President Anjan Chowdhury Pintu, ATCO Senior
Vice President Mozammel Babu and journalist Subhash Singha Roy joined the
meeting, among others.