A convening committee of a new organisation named Sonargaon History, Heritage and Antiquities Preservation has recently been formed.
This five-member committee was formed after a meeting at the Sonargaon Press Club in Narayanganj on Saturday with poet Shahed Kayes, founder of Subarnagram Foundation, as convener, and Sonargaon Sahitya Niketan general secretary Rabiul Hussain as member-secretary.
The other members of the committee are poet Rahman Mujib, journalist and writer Hasan Mahmud Ripon, and general secretary of the Sonargaon branch of Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik Mizanur Rahman Mamun.
Shahed Kayes said that the organisation鈥檚 journey began with the aim of properly presenting the glorious history of Sonargaon to the new generation through the preservation and necessary maintenance of almost extinct history, heritage and antiquities.
Among others present at the time were Sonargaon Press Club vice-president Moktar Hossain Mollah, poet and writer Moazzenul Haque, poet Shankar Prakash, organisers Rokeya Akhter, Tarek Mahmud, Shamima Nasrin, Khadija Akhter, Lata Mahmud, Md Rashed, journalists Salahuddin and Abdus Sattar.