Baishakh, the first day of the Bengali new year-1421, tomorrow (Monday) with festive mood and enthusiasm with a vow to build a non-communal, happy and prosperous Bangladesh.
Children, youths, men, women and activists of the socio-cultural, voluntary and professional organizations are supposed to come out on the streets wearing traditional dresses after sunrise to welcome the Bengali New Year.
Besides, hundreds of men, women and children, in traditional colourful clothes, will throng Rajshahi College playground, Fudkipara open stage, Collectorate ground and Shishu Academy and other venues especially the bank of the river Padma for celebrations of the New Year in the city.
The programmes of the day are going to be heralded in the city by Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) at Fudkipara Open Stage at dawn where a weeklong barshabaran festival will be kicked off.
Mayor Mosaddique Hossain Bulbul will inaugurate the festival as the chief guest and to serve panta bhat among the people.
Marking the celebration, Rajshahi district administration arranged a colourful rally from Collegiate School premises and after parading some of the city streets the rally will be ended at the Shishu Academy open ground where a two-day long cultural function will be opened.
BSS from Rangpur adds: The concerned administrations and organisations have completed preparations to celebrate Pahela Baishakh, the Bengali New Year 1421, amid huge traditional festivity in the northern districts on April 14 next.
The concerned authorities have taken adequate security measures for ensuring peaceful Baishakhi celebrations with traditional glories and rich ancestral cultural heritage of the Bangalees in line with the spirit of War of Liberation.
The district and upazila administrations, different government, non-government, sociocultural, professional and other organisations, private bodies, educational institutions, have chalked out daylong elaborate programmes to celebrate the day.
According to sources in the district administrations, hundreds children, youths, men, women and activists of different organisations, wearing traditional dresses, will bring out ‘Pravat Ferry’ on the streets after sunrise to welcome the Bengali New Year 1421.
Besides, Baishakhi processions carrying colourful festoons, placards, banners, wearing masks and singing Boishakhi songs, Palli Geeti, Jarigan, Vatiali, Baul, Lalon Geeti, Nazrul Geeti and Rabindra Sangeet, folk and classical songs will be brought out.
The traders in hats, bazars, groceries, sales centers and important places in both rural and urban areas have also been taking preparations to organise traditional ‘Halkhata’ and distribute sweets among their customers for renewing their old accounts.
Hundreds of traditional Baishakhi Melas, cultural functions, staging dramas, doll-dances, Nagor Dola, Ha-Du-Du, kite flying competitions and discussions on Pahela Baishakh will be held at district and upazila levels to welcome the event.
In Rangpur, the main Baishakhi procession, to be participated by hundreds of the people, wearing their traditional dresses, will parade the streets from the Deputy Commissioner’s Office at 9am in the city to welcome the Pahela Baishakh.
Besides, hundreds of students, teachers, officials, employees, sociocultural and professional and women activists, men and women, educational institutions and organisations will bring out Baishakhi separate processions on the city streets.
An open discussion will be held at Central Shaheed Minar, stalls and restaurants of different food items will be installed in the Baishakhi Mela and other roadside places, besides cultural functions at many other places in the divisional city.
BSS from Gaibandha adds: Gaibandha is fully ready to welcome Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla New Year- 1421, with much enthusiasm and gaiety and traditional festivities as elsewhere in the country.
In the morning at around 9 am, a big colourful rally welcoming new year would be brought out from the independence Square here and ended at the same venue after parading the main thoroughfares of the town.
JU Correspondent adds: ‘Prodipto Baishakh-e Dipto podocharona’- securing this slogans, authorities of Jahangirnagar University (JU) have taken an all out effort to celebrate the Pahela Boishakh, the first day of Bengali New Year-1421.
At 9:00am, a ‘Mongol Shovajatra’ led by the Vice Chancellor Prof Farzana Islam will be brought out from the premises of ‘Teachers-Student Center’ (TSC) building on the campus.
The most attractive arrangement on the JU campus is ‘a three-day long fair’ at the Central cafeteria premises.
Nagor Dola and different stalls of jeweler, cosmetics, cloths and food shops have been set up on the fair spot.
Different departments, student dormitories and institutes have taken out different events on the day.
At about 10:00am, a cultural programme will be held at the Mohua Tola in front of the New Arts building arranged the department of Bangla while another cultural programme will be held at the same place at 3:00pm arranged by the ‘Student Welfare Centre’.
Besides, Student Welfare Centre has arranged another cultural session at 5:00pm at the Selim Al Deen Mukta Manch while department of Bangla will also hold another cultural session at the same place at 7:00pm.
Marking the occasion, all out security efforts has been taken on the campus, confirmed the JU proctor Prof Tapan Kumar Shaha.
