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BSS, Naogaon

District Women Affairs Department distributed Taka 3,24,000 as maternity allowance among 180 poor mothers in the district on Wednesday.

Momtaj Begum, District Women Affairs Department Officer, presided over the distribution ceremony while Shefaul Karim, Deputy Commissioner of the district was present as the chief guest.

The Deputy Commissioner said a healthy mother could give birth to a healthy child. But it is not possible for poor families to take proper care to women in their pregnancy. Keeping this situation in mind, the government has decided to provided with maternity allowances among the poor expecting mothers.

UNO Abu Zubaer Hossain, director of Sonali Bank Ilias Hossain, among others, spoke on the occasion.