DHAKA, March 7, 2024 (BSS) - Five women will get 'Best Joyeeta Award-2023' at the national level as recognition to attaining success in different fields by overcoming difficulties and challenges.
 
The joyeeta winners will be awarded at the national level on the International Women's Day to be celebrated tomorrow, a press release said today.
 
The best awardees are- Anarkali (economic), Kallyani Minji (education and employment), Komoli Rabi Dash (successful mother), Jahanara Begum (repression prevention) and Pakhi Datta Hijra (social development), according to the press release.
 
On the occasion of International Women's Day, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will be present as the chief guest at the day’s celebration programme to be held at Osmani Memorial Auditorium at 10:00am tomorrow.
 
In that programme, top five joyeeta winners will be awarded, the release added.
 
Each of them will be given a cheque for Taka one lakh, crest, sash (Uttoriyo) and certificate.
 
"Joyeeta" (victorious), a woman who reaches peak of the success by conquering all hurdles, means it is the symbolic name of a struggling and indomitable woman.
 
The country's womenfolk have advanced a lot through various pragmatic steps of the present Awami League government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina like “Joyeeta” which is its main example.
 
The womenfolk of the county are now flying planes that mean they are keeping rolling the wheels of the economy. And Joyeeta is a "true symbol" of women development and empowerment.
  
The Women Affairs Directorate of the government has taken this initiative for finding out these Joyeetas. The name of the programme is "Joyeeta Onneshone Bangladesh" (In search of Joyeetas in Bangladesh).
 
The government is giving awards to Joyeetas in five categories-- the women who achieved success economically, the women who earned success in education and job, the successful mothers, the women who turned around by wiping out the dark days of torture and the women who contributed to social development.