12 get TIB awards for anti-graft cartoons

While a physician holding a small syringe looms over a sick child, a thin shabby man injects the former with a large dose of money.

This caricature by a second-year Dhaka University student representing corruption and ever increasing costs in healthcare won the first prize in Group A (13-18 years) of the "The 10th Anti-Corruption Cartoon Competition 2015".

Ashraful Islam and second and third prize winners Mahatab Rashid and Anika Bushra are among 12 persons awarded with a crest, a certificate and an honorarium in four categories by Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) yesterday.

The ceremony was held in the capital's Drik Gallery where the winning entries would be on display till December 14.

Group-B (19-25 years) winners are Arafat Karim (1st), Dipankar Singha (2nd) and Toma Saha (3rd) while those of newly introduced categories "Cartoon on Climate Fund Governance" and "Photo on Anti-Corruption" are Nasreen Sultana Mitu, Arafat Karim, and Hasan Mahmud, and Shafiqul Alam, Fakrul Islam and Pronab Krishna Roy respectively.

Danish Ambassador to Bangladesh Hanne Fugl Eskjaer, TIB Executive Director Dr Iftekharuzzaman and Board of Trustees Chairperson Sultana Kamal, Head of Development Cooperation at Swedish International Development Cooperation Karin McDonald, and veteran cartoonists Ahsan Habib and Prof Shishir Bhattacharya also spoke.