City Reporter
The artists’ community on Monday urged the authorities concerned to pay attention to ‘Artists Welfare Fund’ with the objective to provide financial help to those performers’ families who laid down their lives in the line of duty.
Talking to media, stage artist Rauf Mirza said, “The purpose of the welfare fund was to help the artists and their families in times of crisis.”
It was also set up to provide financial aid to the artists who were inactive due to old age, adverse health conditions, or otherwise handicapped from accident or disease; as a financial assistance to their families after death, he added.
He said sometimes community got the advantage to avail the opportunity but mostly their requests were not entertained as per the criterion set under the Fund and were left unattended.
