Staff Reporter :
The government and the non-government offices, banks and insurances, schools and colleges, the autonomous and the semi-autonomous bodies reopen today (Sunday) after the nine days long Eid vacation that began on the first instant.
The city residents who left Dhaka for homes to celebrate the Eid festival with relatives continued their return journey till Saturday night. Some of them will also arrive this morning.
The government declared the Eid holidays for nine days this year without break. Those offices, which were closed on the 4th July, will remain open on the 16th instant.
The city looked almost vacant all through the last week. The roads were nearly deserted, the number of buses and other means of transports were fewer than usual, even 16 pairs of trains were cancelled from the Kamalapur Railway Station for passengers paucity. Most of the shopping centers were closed, even the rickshaws were less in the capital.
However, the bus and the launch terminals and the railway stations were buzzing with passengers in the last two days. The Mohakhali, the Gabtali and the Sayedabad bus stands were crowded with passengers returning from homes after passing Eid vacation.
Nahida Arefin, an NGO worker, returning from Mymensingh said, “As the vacation ended on Saturday, we returned to our work place on Sunday after nine days elation with relatives in the village.”
But there were teeming of people into the entertaining centers like Zoo, Children Parks, Fantasy Kingdom and the Nandan Park Complex. The children enjoyed their Eid holidays most merrily.
Aminul Huq, a banker, returning to city after the Eid vacation said, “We asked an auto-rickshaw to go to Azimpur from Sayedabad. I told him to go on meter, but he declined and demanded extra money. I had to compromise with him.”
Aminul said, the schools and colleges are still closed for the Eid vacation. “There was no traffic congestion on the high ways. So, the passengers did not face troubles in movement”.
The government and the non-government offices, banks and insurances, schools and colleges, the autonomous and the semi-autonomous bodies reopen today (Sunday) after the nine days long Eid vacation that began on the first instant.
The city residents who left Dhaka for homes to celebrate the Eid festival with relatives continued their return journey till Saturday night. Some of them will also arrive this morning.
The government declared the Eid holidays for nine days this year without break. Those offices, which were closed on the 4th July, will remain open on the 16th instant.
The city looked almost vacant all through the last week. The roads were nearly deserted, the number of buses and other means of transports were fewer than usual, even 16 pairs of trains were cancelled from the Kamalapur Railway Station for passengers paucity. Most of the shopping centers were closed, even the rickshaws were less in the capital.
However, the bus and the launch terminals and the railway stations were buzzing with passengers in the last two days. The Mohakhali, the Gabtali and the Sayedabad bus stands were crowded with passengers returning from homes after passing Eid vacation.
Nahida Arefin, an NGO worker, returning from Mymensingh said, “As the vacation ended on Saturday, we returned to our work place on Sunday after nine days elation with relatives in the village.”
But there were teeming of people into the entertaining centers like Zoo, Children Parks, Fantasy Kingdom and the Nandan Park Complex. The children enjoyed their Eid holidays most merrily.
Aminul Huq, a banker, returning to city after the Eid vacation said, “We asked an auto-rickshaw to go to Azimpur from Sayedabad. I told him to go on meter, but he declined and demanded extra money. I had to compromise with him.”
Aminul said, the schools and colleges are still closed for the Eid vacation. “There was no traffic congestion on the high ways. So, the passengers did not face troubles in movement”.
