July Shaheed Smriti Foundation has decided to pay Tk. 5 lakh taka to each family of the martyrs who died in the student movement and Tk. 1 lakh to each of the injured.
On Wednesday (September 18) this decision was taken in the first executive committee meeting of ‘July Smriti Foundation’ presided over by Chief Adviser Dr. Mohammad Yunus.
Checks will be handed over to the families of the martyrs through a memorial function and compensation will be given to the injured as soon as possible.
People from all walks of life, Bangladeshi expatriates and organizations and businesses have been called upon to donate to the Foundation led by the Chief Advisor. The Executive Committee also decided to hire volunteers to run an office and activities for the Foundation. The foundation is said to preserve and archive all videos, photographs, oral histories and other documents and memorabilia of the July-August uprising.
Chief adviser to the interim government at the meeting Muhammad Yunus said, 'July Shaheed Smriti Foundation is an important milestone. We have to work hard to make it a success.”
He said the foundation should also document donations of small amounts and maintain a list of donors, if possible publishing their names on the foundation's website.
The Chief Adviser said that the Health Ministry will pay the medical expenses of the injured. The compensation that the foundation will pay to the injured will be out of the government's medical expenses.
Interim government Advisers Sharmin Murshid, Nahid Islam and Asif Mahmud, general secretary of the foundation Mir Mahbubur Rahman Singhdho and treasurer of the foundation Kazi Waqar Ahmad were present in the meeting.