 Mujibnagar Memorial. Located at a distance of about 7 km. from the town of Meherpur The PROCLAMATION OF INDEPENDENCE was read at the village Baidyanathtola, now Mujibnagar, on 17 April 1971. On this day the first provisional government of Bangladesh took oath here. The Pak army killed 8 persons at village Amjhupi on 18 April 1971. | Mujibnagar memorial nearly complete: official Sat, Dec 15th, 2007 5:28 pm BdST http://www.bdnews24.com/details.php?id=32558&cid=3 |
| Dhaka, Dec 15 (bdnews24.com) – The construction of Mujibnagar Liberation War Memorial Complex is nearing completion, officials said Saturday.
The project was taken up to memorialise the place where the government of the newly independent Bangladesh mapped out a constitution and held the first swearing-in ceremony.
Liberation war affairs secretary Abul Kasem Mahbubul Alam told bdnews24.com that the construction of the first phase of the project would be completed in June.
The entire project will cost around Tk 45.25 crore. A giant map of Bangladesh will be installed in the area for which the cost has been estimated at Tk 17 crore.
Some 38 sculptures, dioramas and replicas will also be built at a cost of Tk 8 crore.
The remaining fund will be spent on other related units of the project, including the construction of an administrative building.
A top official with the liberation war affairs ministry said the Awami League government initiated the project in 1996 and started work in 1998.
The cultural affairs ministry was in charge of the project and later shifted it to the liberation war affairs ministry after it was formed in 2002.
Mahbubul Alam told bdnews24.com that they would start the second phase of the project after the completion of the first phase in June.
The second phase includes a number of activities such as supervision of the monument, recruitment of staffers for maintenance and beautification.
bdnews24.com/mk/ahd-ehb/su/ad/1715 hours | April 17 | The First Bangladesh Government is Formed in exile. Awami League leaders convene in the district of Meherpur near the Indian border in Jessore, in the village of Baidyanathtala later renamed Mujibnagar, and affirm Sheikh Mujib's March 26 proclamation for an independent Bangladesh. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is declared the President of the newly formed Republic, and Syed Nazrul Islam the Vice-President. Nazrul Islam assumes the reponsibilities of the Interim President, and appoints Tajuddin Ahmed as the Prime Minsiter to lead the provisional government. | 
Mujibnagar, April 17, 1971: C-in-C Col. Osmany, Acting President Syed Nazrul Islam, and Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmed at the swearing in ceremony of the first Bangladesh government. 
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Architect Jalal Ahmad designer of Mujibnagar Memorial |
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