‘9th wage board for journos awaits PM approval’

State Minister for Information Tarana Halim today said that the file on the 9th wage board for journalists is now awaiting the Prime Minister’s approval. 

“We have sent the file to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) with a proposal of forming a 13-member committee for implementing the 9th wage board for the journalists. It is now awaiting approval,” she said at a view exchange meeting with journalists at her office in the Secretariat here.

The meeting was held to inform the journalists about the ministry’s future plans.

The wage board will be declared soon after the Prime Minister's approval, Tarana said. “We expect that the issue of the 9th wage board will be disposed of soon,” the state minister said, adding that journalists' interests would get priority in the wage board over the interest of the newspaper owners.

Tarana said she wants to sit with the television (TV) journalists, who are working in the field, for eliminating the wage discrimination in TV journalism.

In the meeting, she informed about a plan of conducting a publicity campaign titled 'Branding Bangladesh' to publicize the country's development and prospects at the upazila and district levels and in different foreign missions. 

The campaign will contain the information of the country's migrant workers' contributions to the economies of the countries where they are employed in, Tarana said. 

It will also include the information on how many workers are employed in which sector and what is their contribution to the domestic economy, she added.

Direction has already been given to the Department of Films and Publications (DFP) to take measures regarding the publicity campaign, the state minister added.

Source: BSS