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Pahela Baishakh celebration
Open programmes after 5 pm prohibited
Chittagong Bureau :
Traditional Pahela Boishak will be observed in the port city as elsewhere in the country on Friday next in a festive mood. People irrespective of caste and creed will observe the Pahela Baishak.
To avoid the nuisances and violence in observing the Bengali traditional day, concerned authority has imposed prohibitions of holding any open programs in outside venues after 5 pm.
In this connection, Metro police and the district police authority have issued separate directives to avoid of holding the outside programs after 5 pm .
Meanwhile authorities of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP), Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and district police here have taken extra security measures to avert any untoward incident on Pahela Baishakh, the first day of the Bengali New Year on Friday.
The authorities took decision to deploy 3,250 police personnel and nearly 550 RAB members for uninterrupted celebration of Pahela Baishakh in the city and district.
CMP sources said, they would deploy 2,250 police personnel at 92 points and set up 32 check posts in different strategic places in the metropolis as part of its security measures.
RAB will also deploy over 350 personnel in Chittagong, Reazul Masud, Additional Superintendent of Police (Special Branch) of Chittagong district police, said over 1,500 police personnel will be kept for vigil at important places including upazila headquarters on the occasion of Pahela Baishakh.
Special security measures will be taken especially at the biggest
Baishakhi Mela celebration venues like DC Hill, CRB area, Patenga Sea Beach and Shilpakala Academy, said Anwar Hossain, Additional Deputy Commissioner of CMP (PR). Besides, different tourist spots and amusement parks including Foy’s Lake, Swadhinata Park, Parky Sea Beach, Chittagong University campus and Sitakunda Eco Park will be brought under the security net, the sources added.
Traditional Pahela Boishak will be observed in the port city as elsewhere in the country on Friday next in a festive mood. People irrespective of caste and creed will observe the Pahela Baishak.
To avoid the nuisances and violence in observing the Bengali traditional day, concerned authority has imposed prohibitions of holding any open programs in outside venues after 5 pm.
In this connection, Metro police and the district police authority have issued separate directives to avoid of holding the outside programs after 5 pm .
Meanwhile authorities of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP), Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and district police here have taken extra security measures to avert any untoward incident on Pahela Baishakh, the first day of the Bengali New Year on Friday.
The authorities took decision to deploy 3,250 police personnel and nearly 550 RAB members for uninterrupted celebration of Pahela Baishakh in the city and district.
CMP sources said, they would deploy 2,250 police personnel at 92 points and set up 32 check posts in different strategic places in the metropolis as part of its security measures.
RAB will also deploy over 350 personnel in Chittagong, Reazul Masud, Additional Superintendent of Police (Special Branch) of Chittagong district police, said over 1,500 police personnel will be kept for vigil at important places including upazila headquarters on the occasion of Pahela Baishakh.
Special security measures will be taken especially at the biggest
Baishakhi Mela celebration venues like DC Hill, CRB area, Patenga Sea Beach and Shilpakala Academy, said Anwar Hossain, Additional Deputy Commissioner of CMP (PR). Besides, different tourist spots and amusement parks including Foy’s Lake, Swadhinata Park, Parky Sea Beach, Chittagong University campus and Sitakunda Eco Park will be brought under the security net, the sources added.
