Information and Broadcasting Adviser Md Nahid Islam on Thursday declared a work plan for the next 100 days to speed up the works of the ministry and departments and organisations under it.
The adviser made public the work plan at a press briefing at the meeting room of the ministry at the Secretariat on Thursday afternoon, reports BSS.
Under the work plan, the adviser said, the Press Institute Bangladesh (PIB) and the Department of Films and Publications (DFP) will work jointly to make documentaries on all corruption, injustice and crimes against humanity, including the recent killings, committed by the ousted Awami League government from 2009 to 2024.
Besides, he presented the work done by the ministry and its departments in the last one month.
As per the work plan for the next 100 days, initiatives will be taken to make Bangladesh Betar and Bangladesh Television pro-people, and documentaries will be made on the martyrs who sacrificed their lives and those who were injured during the mass upsurge and their families.
The documentaries will be telecast by Bangladesh Television, the adviser said, adding that initiatives would be taken to form an independent mass media commission and to make Mass Media Employees Act (Services Condition).
Nahid said that steps would be taken to make the Broadcasting Act, and carry out legal reform of the organisational structures of Bangladesh Betar, BTV and other departments.
Necessary reform of law and policy would be done for independent mass media. Initiatives would be taken for logical reform of the salary structure of journalists, involving the young generation in making films, digitalising cable TV networks and modernising the licensing policy of online news portals, he added.
The adviser said reform initiatives will be taken for appropriate implementation of ongoing projects and modernisation of the Bangladesh Film Development Corporation Act, 1957.
He said steps will be taken to formulate policies regarding the participation of irregular artists of Bangladesh Betar. An informative programme will be aired on Bangladesh Television highlighting wall writing, songs and graffiti across the country, including Dhaka, he added.
Nahid said the news portal of the news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) will be updated along with publishing 200 features about the families of the students and people who were martyred and injured during the recent revolution.
He said the main goals and objectives of the anti-discrimination student movement will be promoted at the grassroots level.
Memorial for martyrs postponed: Nahid
Information and Broadcasting Adviser Md Nahid Islam on Thursday informed that the memorial meeting to honour the martyrs of the recent student-people mass upsurge, scheduled for Saturday, has been postponed.
A new date will be announced later, he told reporters at a press briefing held at the Secretariat on Thursday.
The health ministry has confirmed a list of 728 martyrs, with 20,263 injured people during the movement, he said.
Earlier on Tuesday, the government had set September 14 as the date for the memorial.
Families of the martyrs and students, who participated in the movement, were expected to attend the memorial.
