The concerned administration 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.Authorities of Rangpur City Corporation, Begum Rokeya University,Rangpur Medical College, Carmichael College, District Corruption Prevention Committee, Rangpur Shahittya-Sangskritik Parishad,
Chhandosik Shahittya Sanskritik Gosthi, Nagorik Nattya Gosthi, Sammilito Sangskritik Jyote and many other originations have chalked out Baishakhi programmes.Additional Divisional Commissioner (General) Narayan Chandra Barma said the concerned authorities and organisations have taken adequate measures to ensure law and order for peaceful celebrations of Bengali New Year everywhere in Rangpur division. -BSS, Rangpur
