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Offices to resume Monday after Eid vacation

GreenWatch Desk Nation 2023-04-23, 11:31pm

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The government offices, banks and financial institutions will resume tomorrow after a five-day vacation of the holy Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest religious festivals of the Muslims.

Eid-ul-Fitr was celebrated across the country with due religious fervor and festivity on April 22.

This year, the government employees got six-day holiday at a stretch as the government extended the Eid-ul-Fitr holiday by one more day with April 20 as the public holiday after the holy Shab-e-Qadr holiday on April 19.

A large number of people left the capital, Dhaka, to celebrate the festival at their village homes with near and dear ones. Dhaka streets took deserted look as people went to villages to celebrate the festival.

From today, people started returning to Dhaka to join their offices and works, reports BSS.