BJWT is evidence of govt’s goodwill to protect journalists: Arafat

State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Mohammad Ali
Arafat today said the Bangladesh Journalist
Welfare Trust (BJWT) is an evidence of Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina led government’s goodwill
in protecting journalists.

“Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina believes in the
expansion and freedom of the media and the
welfare and protection of journalists too,” he said.

The state minister said this while chairing the 30th
meeting of the BJWT Trustee Board at his
ministry’s conference room in the Bangladesh
Secretariat here this afternoon, according to a press
release.

Keeping pace with the expansion of the country’s
media in the last 15 years, he said, different
initiatives have been taken for ensuring the overall
welfare of the journalists.

“In 2014, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
established the BJWT by enacting the Bangladesh
Journalists Welfare Trust Act. The formation of
this trust proved that the government, led by her, is
the journalist-friendly one,” the state minister said. (BSS)