Begum Rokeya Padak
Award
Begum Rokeya Padak বেগম রোকেয়া পদক Awarded for Women's activism Location Dhaka , BangladeshCountry Bangladesh Presented by Government of Bangladesh First awarded 1995 Last awarded 2022
Begum Rokeya Padak , named after Begum Rokeya , is a Bangladeshi national honour conferred on individual women for their exceptional achievement. The award is given by the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs of the Government of Bangladesh . First awarded in 1995, the Rokeya Padak recognises the pioneering contribution of an individual in empowering women and raising women's issues.[1] [2]
Each recipient receives a gold medal weighing 25 grams of 18-karat gold, a certificate of honour, and a cash reward.[3] The cash reward was tk 2,00,000 from May 2017. It was increased to tk 4,00,000 from November 2019.[4]
Award winners
As of December 2020, 61 awards had been presented:
1995 – Shamsunnahar Mahmud [1]
1996 – Sufia Kamal [5] and Nilima Ibrahim [6]
1997 – Nurjahan Begum [7]
1999 – Angela Gomes [8] and Setara Begum (Rahman) [9]
2001 – Hena Das , Maliha Khatun and Beggzadi Mahmuda Nasir [10] [11]
2002 – Akhtar Imam [12] and Zohra Begum Kazi [13]
2003 – Taiyaba Majumder and Maleka Ashraf [14]
2004 – Begum Husna Banu Khanam and Dilara Chowdhury [15]
2005 – Rokeya Mannan[16]
2007 – Latifa Akand and Hosne Ara Begum [17]
2008 – Sultana Sarwat Ara Zaman and Nasrin Parvin Huq (posthumous)[18] [19]
2009 – Razia Hossain and Mamtaz Hossen[20]
2010 – Meher Kabir and Ayesha Zafar[21]
2011 – Begum Meherunnesa Khatun and Hamida Khanam[22]
2012 – Mahfuza Khanam and Syeda Jebunnesa Haque [23]
2013 – Hamida Banu and Jharna Dhara Chowdhury [1]
2014 – Mamtaz Begum and Golap Banu [2]
2015 – Bibi Russell and Taibun Nahar Rashid (posthumous)[24]
2016 – Aroma Dutta and Begum Noorjahan [25] [26]
2017 – Mazeda Shawkat Ali, Baby Maudud (posthumous), Suraiya Rahman, Shobha Rani Tripura and Masuda Faruk Ratna[27]
2018 – Zinnatunnessa Talukdar , Zohra Anis, Shila Roy, Rama Chowdhury (posthumous) and Rokeya Begum (posthumous)[28]
2019 – Begum Selina Khalek, Shamsun Nahar, Papri Basu , Begum Akhtar Jahan and Nurun Nahar Faizannesa (posthumously).[29]
2020 – Shireen Akhter , Brig Gen Nazma Begum , Monjulika Chakma , Begum Mushtari Shafi , and Farida Akter[30]
2021 – Hasina Zakaria Bela, Archana Biswas, Shamsunnahar Rahman Paran (posthumous), Zinat Huda and Saria Sultana[31]
2022 – Rahima Khatun, Kamrun Nahar Begum, Farida Yasmin, Afroza Parveen, and Nasima Begum.[32]
2023 – Khaleda Ekram (posthumous), Halida Hanum Akhter ,[33] Kamrunnesa Ashraf Dina (posthumous), Ronita Bala, and Nishat Majumdar .[34]
See also
References
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^ 5 awarded Begum Rokeya Padak 2018, Prothom Alo, 9 December 2018
^ National awards money doubled, amount for Independence Award raised to Tk 500,000, bdnews twenty four dot com, 21 November 2019
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^ "Two get Begum Rokeya Padak" . The Daily Star . 24 January 2004. Archived from the original on 2017-12-01. Retrieved 2017-11-20 .
^ "Husna Banu, Dr Dilara get Rokeya Padak" . The Daily Star . 9 December 2004. Retrieved 2017-11-20 .
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^ "Blockade aims to save war criminals: PM" . The Daily Star . 2012-12-10. Retrieved 2019-12-10 .
^ "Bibi Russell, Taibun Nahar get Rokeya Padak" . Bdnews24.com . 9 December 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2016 .
^ "PM emphasises investing in women" . Prothom Alo . BSS. 9 December 2016. Archived from the original on 5 September 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2017 .
^ "Rokeya Padak goes to Aroma Dutta, Nur Jahan" . Daily Sun . Dhaka. 9 December 2016.
^ "Five receive Rokeya Padak" . The Daily Star . 2017-12-09. Retrieved 2019-02-09 .
^ "Be responsible towards family" . The Daily Star . 2018-12-10. Retrieved 2019-02-09 .
^ "PM distributes Begum Rokeya Padak" . The Daily Star . 2019-12-09. Retrieved 2019-12-09 .
^ "5 eminent women named for Begum Rokeya Padak 2020" . Dhaka Tribune . 2020-12-08. Retrieved 2020-12-09 .
^ "5 women receive Begum Rokeya Padak-2021" . The Daily Star . 2021-12-09. Retrieved 2021-12-09 .
^ "PM hands over Begum Rokeya Padak to 5 women" . The Daily Star . 2022-12-09. Retrieved 2022-12-09 .
^ "Halida Akhter | Johns Hopkins | Bloomberg School of Public Health" . publichealth.jhu.edu . Retrieved 2024-01-30 .
^ "PM confers Begum Rokeya Padak 2023 on five noted women" . The Daily Star . 2023-12-09. Retrieved 2023-12-09 .