Local authorities on Friday gave honorarium of Tk 5.75 lakh to imams, muezzins and representatives of 137 mosques and maktabs in Cox's Bazar municipality.
Cox’s Bazar municipality mayor and Awami League’s district unit general secretary Mujibur Rahman handed over the cheques to imams, muezzins at the municipality’s conference room.
The mayor urged imams to speak of the government's directives on coronavirus in mosques during the Ramadan. Secretary of the municipality Rachel and Cox’s Bazar Central Mosque Imam Mufti Solaiman Kashemi, among others, were present on the occasion.
The function was followed by offering a special prayer for the liberation war martyrs and the victims of the coronavirus pandemic.
