, March 15 -- Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Sunday provided an Eid gift of Tk 5,000 to each cleaner employed by the country's 12 city corporations.

He handed over cheques to the Mayor of Chattogram City Corporation and administrators of other city corporations at his office at the Bangladesh Parliament Secretariat at 3:30 pm, Prime Minister's Additional Press Secretary Atikur Rahman Rumon told UNB.

"The Prime Minister handed over cheques of Tk5,000 to each cleaner employed by the country's 12 city corporations through the respective mayors and administrators," he said.

Rumon said this financial support has been given to show respect and solidarity with sanitation workers on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr. "Sanitation workers play a vit...