Dhaka, March 25 -- Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has stressed the need for introducing rules to award distinguished persons during their lifetimes as he conferred Independence Award-2025 on seven luminaries for their outstanding contributions to the national level.

"The joy that the country, families and the individuals get if people are awarded during their lifetimes, - such joy cannot be found if awards are conferred posthumously," he said at the award distribution function at Osmani Memorial Auditorium in Dhaka on Tuesday.

At the onset of his speech, Prof Yunus said among the awardees, six persons being honoured are "no more with us."

"We should introduce rules that we will only adorn the living persons with awards after ho...