A total of 300 working lactating mothers in Jhenaidah municipality area have received allowances. The allowances were distributed at Jhenidah municipality auditorium on Thursday.
Objectives of distribution of allowance among the working lactating mothers were to ensure nutrition and food for both the mothers and their children towards a healthy Bangladesh.
Presided over by Jhenaidah municipality mayor Saidul Karim Minty, deputy commissioner (DC) Saroj Kumar Nath attended as chief guest.
Superintendent of police (SP) Muntasirul Islam, deputy director of the department of women affairs (DWA) Nilufar Yesmin, Jhenidah Sadar police station officer in charge Mijanur Rahman and Bank Asia Jhenidah branch manager Tauhiduzzaman were present as special guests.
an amount of Taka 800 a month as the monthly allowances for continuous 36 months as per the government’s safe mother programme throughout the country.
The speakers said to ensure sound health and food and nutrition f booth mother and child, the government of the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had thrown the lactating mother allowance activities so that the mothers could deliver healthy and disease-free child and grow them normally. The programme will help reduce the pre and post natal period.
