The cabinet with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair today approved the draft of Bangladesh Film Artists' Welfare Trust Act-2020 to ensure welfare of actors and actresses of the country's film industry and enhance their professional excellence.

"The law has been formulated in line with the prime minister's directive to provide financial assistance to insolvent and incapable artists for their welfare and treatment as well," cabinet secretary Khandaker Anwarul Islam told journalists at the regular post-weekly cabinet meeting at Bangladesh Secretariat's cabinet division.

The head of the government joined the meeting virtually from her official Gono Bhaban residence while her cabinet colleagues were connected from the Bangladesh Secretariat virtually.

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