Bangladesh Freedom Fighter Welfare Trust

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Bangladesh Freedom Fighters Welfare Trust
FormationSeptember 1972
HeadquartersDhaka, Bangladesh
Region served
Bangladesh
Official language
Bengali
WebsiteBangladesh Freedom Fighters Welfare Trust

Bangladesh Freedom Fighters Welfare Trust or Muktijoddha Kalyan Trust,[1] is government owned and operated trust in Bangladesh established to look after the interest of former Mukti Bahini members and others who fought for Bangladesh in the Bangladesh Liberation war and their family members.

History[]

It was established in September 1972. It owns a number of companies which generate include Tabani Beverage Company, Eastern Cables Industries Limited, Multiple Juice Concentrate Plant, , and Model Engineering Works. It owns four movie theatres: Gulistan, Naz, Moon, and Delwar Pictures. It also owns Gulistan Films Corporation and Durbar Advertising and Publications, Purnima Filling and Services Station. It also receives an annual 160 million taka from the government.[2] According to the act which established the trust a freedom fighter is "person who served as a member of any force engaged in the war of liberation but shall not include the serving members of the defence services, police or the civil armed forces, or any government pensioner, or any other person having any regular source of income".[3] Tabani Beverage Company is a bottler of Coca-Cola in Bangladesh.[4] Between 1988 and 1989 it made a list of freedom fighters in Bangladesh.[5] The Government of Bangladesh in the 1970s handed over the management of tanneries to the trust and Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation.[6][7] In 2018, the trust closed down all of the industries it owned as corruption had made them unsustainable.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ "[WATCH] Gobinda Haldar: 1971 war lyricist". The Daily Star. 11 December 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  2. ^ "Bangladesh Freedom Fighters Welfare Trust". Banglapedia. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  3. ^ "Around 70,000 under scrutiny". The Daily Star. 18 August 2014. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  4. ^ "Cabinet lets major foreign investment deal slip". Dhaka Tribune. Archived from the original on 9 October 2016. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  5. ^ "Sector commanders for list of collaborators". The Daily Star. 16 December 2007. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  6. ^ Basher, Abul (13 October 2013). "Building the future of the leather sector". The Financial Express (Opinion). Dhaka. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  7. ^ "Hazardous Hazaribagh". Dhaka Tribune. Archived from the original on 29 December 2017. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  8. ^ "All industries closed for corruption". New Age. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
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