The government awarded 10 sculptors for their works presented at a competition for selecting a sculpture to be installed at Nagasaki Peace Park in Japan.
Three sculptures selected from 62 in the competition will be presented to the Prime Minister.
Housing and Public Works Minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain on Wednesday handed over the awards to the winners of first, second and third prizes and seven more participants at a function at the meeting room of the ministry.
In the competition, Anindia Pandit got the first prize comprising Taka 5 lakh and a certificate.
Mohammad Emran Hossain got the second prize comprising Taka 3 lakh and a certificate. M Asifur Rahman received the third prize comprising Taka 2 lakh and a certificate.
Speaking on the occasion, Engineer Mosharraf Hossain said Bangladesh is in favour of peace. The present government is working for peace, he added.
The minister said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, during her visit to Japan, made arrangements to set up a sculpture of Bangladesh at Nagasaki Peace Park where an atom bomb named ‘Little Boy’ was dropped on August 9 in 1945, killing 1.5 lakh people.
Presided over by Housing and Public Works Secretary M Shahid Ullah Khandaker, the function was also addressed by Jury Board chief sculptor Rabiul Husain and Additional Secretary M Bazlul Kabir Chowdhury.
