Winter clothes distributed at Fulbari
Dinajpur (South) Correspondent
Fulbari Upazila Gram Bikash Kanrdra (GBK) distributed winter clothes among 200 cool- hit poor people at Fulbari upazila In Dinajpur on Tuesday noon. A discussion was arranged at Upazila Gram Bikash Kanrdra (GBK) office Chattar with Upazila menager of Gram Bikash Kanrdra (GBK) Alo Prokolpo, Shah Md. Sadiyar Rahman in the chair.President of Fulbari Press Club, President of Advocacy Platform, The Daily New Nation & Daily Ittefaq correspondent Lecturer Amar Chand Gupta Apu, as the chief guest attended the discussion. Upazila Social Service Officer Md. Akhtaruzzaman, Head of operation of Gram Bikash Kanrdra (GBK) Micro Finance Md. Moniruzzaman Chawdhury, Deputy Head of operation of Gram Bikash Kanrdra (GBK) Micro Finance Md. Aminul Islam, SME Program menager of Bikash Kanrdra (GBK) Md. Akram Hossain, Program menager (Agriculture, Fisher & Animal resources) Md. Abu Sayem Jiku and Staff Reporter of The Weekly Desh maa, Dainik Ajkaler Khabor and The Daily Tritiya Matra Correspondent Plabon Shuvo addressed the event as special guests.
Marble-playing competition held in Agoiljhara
Barisal Correspondent
The traditional marble-playing competition ended at Ramanander Aak village under Rajihar Union of Agoiljhara Upazila in Barisal on early Monday. Digbijoy Bosu, local teacher and president of the 37-member fair management committee, said Awlia Ma Sonai Chand became widow at the age of only 13-year in 1748. Then she worshiping God Shiva turned to be a saint and became famous in the area and local people for different types of supernatural attributes. Awlia Ma Sonai Chand introduced the fair from the date of Poush Sangkranti (last date of Bangla Poush month) with Goshai Nabanna Festival, different types of rituals, marketing of local and traditional foods, crafts, marble-plying competition since 1780. Makeshift shops on crop-fields with different types of traditional sweet-meats, foods, fruits, toys, bamboo, cane hand made crafts, tea and grocery items opened at the fair. People and followers of Awlia Ma Sonai Chand from Agoiljhara, Gournadi, Wajirpur, Banaripara, Bakerganj upazilas of Barisal, Dasar, Kalkini of Madaripur, Kotalipara of Gopalganj areas join and visit that fair and participated in marble-playing competition surrounding about 5 kilometers of the areas familiar as Sonai Awliar Bari.
Eighty-year old Haren Biswas of the village and Prodip Das, 35, came from Bakerganj, told the marble-playing competition was introduced to turned the fair popular.
This play held on roads, courtyards of houses, crop-fields, gardens, almost every where of the area. Both male and female relatives and in-laws specially invited to join in the play.
Special Nabanna feast cooked with 50 Kg rice-dust, 50 Kg molasses, 50 pairs of coconuts, bananas during the fair and festival and distributed as Prasad, sacrificed food, to the visitors.
Cultural functions like Kobigaan, Namsangkirtan, and Boisnav Seba also held during the fair.
Abdur Razzak, Agoiljhara police station in charge, told they deployed sufficient forces to maintain law and order in the area during the fair.
