Decorated, injured freedom fighters’ allowances increased

The government has increased the monthly allowance to the families of decorated, injured and martyred Freedom Fighters.

The Cabinet on Monday cleared the proposal to hike the allowances, Cabinet Secretary Md Shafiul Alam told reporters on Monday.

Revised allowance for decorated freedom fighters

Category	Birsreshtho	Bir Uttam	Bir Bikram	Bir Pratik
Previous (Tk)	12,000	10,000	8,000	6,000
Revised (Tk)	30,000	25,000	20,000	15,000

Revised allowance for disabled freedom fighters

Category	Class A	Class B	Class C	Class D
Previous (Tk)	30,000	20,000	16,000	9,700
Revised (Tk)	45,000	35,000	30,000	25,000

Alam also said the allowance to martyrs’ families would increase from Tk 15,000 to

Tk 30,000 and the allowance to families of the injured would increase from Tk 15,000 to Tk 25,000.

There had been no discussion of increasing the allowances to other Freedom Fighters, said the cabinet secretary.

The revised allowances will be implemented with retrospective effect from  January this year, he said.

The decision to award allowances for bravery and sacrifice was taken by the 1971 wartime Mujibnagar administration.

The four categories of award were named Birsreshtho, Bir Uttam, Bir Bikram and Bir Protik after the war.

Seven people were awarded Bir Sreshtho, 68  Bir Uttam, 175 Bir Bikram and 426 Bir Pratik.