News Desk :
The Ekushey Padak 2021 will be awarded to 21 personalities at a function at Osmani Memorial Auditorium in Dhaka at 11 am today (Saturday), reports BSS.
The government announced the names of 21 eminent personalities for the ‘Ekushey Padak-2021’ for their outstanding contributions to respective fields, on February 4 last.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to attend the programme virtually as the chief guest.
The awardees are: Motahar Hossain Talukder (posthumous), Shamsul Huque (posthumous) and Advocate Afsar Uddin Ahmed (posthumous) for their roles in the Language Movement.
Begum Papia Sarwar in Music, Raisul Islam Asad and Salma Begum Sujata in Acting, Ahmed Iqbal Haidar in Drama and Syed Salahuddin Zaki in Film, Dr Bhaskar Bandopadhay in Recitation and Pavel Rahman in Photography.
Golam Hasnayen, Fazlur Rahman Khan Faruk and Syeda Isabela (posthumous) will get the award for their contributions to the Liberation War, while Ajay Dasgupta for his contributions to Journalism, Prof Dr Samir Kumar Saha for Research, Mahfuza Khanam for Education, Dr Mirza Abdul Jalil for Economics and Prof Kazi Kamruzzaman for Social Services and Poet Kazi Rosy, Bulbul Chowdhury and Golam Murshid for their contributions to Language and Literature.
