Prime Minister to Launch Monthly Honorarium Programme for Religious Leaders on Mar 14

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman is set to inaugurate a programme to provide monthly honorariums to religious leaders of different faiths on March 14.

The inauguration ceremony will take place at 10:00am at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the capital, according to an official release from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

Under the initiative, monthly honorariums will be given to imams, muezzins and khadems of mosques; priests and sebaits of temples; principals and vice-principals of Buddhist monasteries; and priests and assistant priests of churches.

The prime minister will formally launch the programme at the ceremony.