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Shopping malls, kitchen markets to close after 8pm

GreenWatch Desk Admin1 2022-06-17, 11:33pm

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The government has directed the authorities concerned to take necessary steps to close shopping malls and kitchen markets by 8 pm to save electricity and energy in the current climate of continuous rise in global energy price hikes.

A letter, signed by Ahsan Kibria Siddiqui, director-general of the Prime Minister's Office (Administration) on Thursday, said that the Premier has instructed to take necessary steps to ensure that shops, shopping malls, kitchen markets, etc. are not kept open after 8 pm with the provisions of Section 114 of Bangladesh Labor Act, 2006.

The Prime Minister's Office has sent a letter to the concerned to ensure proper implementation of this directive, reports UNB.