| Committee set to sit to decide Eid day Posted: 30 Aug 2011 05:48 AM PDT 
The Muslims in the country will celebrate their biggest religious festival Eid-ul-Fitr on Wednesday after 29 days of fasting if the moon is sighted this evening. The National Moon Sighting Committee will sit in a meeting on Tuesday evening to decide the day for Eid. The meeting, to be held at the Islamic Foundation's Baitul Mukarram conference room, will announce the date for Eid reviewing the information about sighting the moon of the holy month of Shawal. State minister for religious affairs and chairman of the national committee Mohammad Shahjahan Mia will preside over the meeting to be held at 7:15 pm. The Eid will be celebrated on Thursday if the moon is not seen on Tuesday evening. President Zillur Rahman, prime minister Sheikh Hasina and opposition leader Khaleda Zia have greeted the citizens ahead of the festival in separate statements. The city will be decorated on the occasion of the Eid. The national flag will be hoisted atop government and non- government offices including the Bangabhaban, prime minister's office, parliament building, secretariat and the High Court in the early hours of the Eid day. Main city streets will also be decorated with flags imprinted with 'Eid Mubarak' in Bangla and Arabic. Like the preceding years, a special menu would be served in hospitals, jails, state-owned children's shelter homes, other welfare centres, and shelter homes for the destitute. Sholakia Eidgah in Kishoreganj, renowned for hosting the biggest congregation of the country, is expected to draw over 250,000 devotees this year. There will be entertainment and cultural programmes and free access to all the children's parks, under Dhaka City Corporation, for the underprivileged children. Newspaper offices will remain closed until Sep 2. The state-run radio station Bangladesh Betar and television channel BTV along with private stations will broadcast special programmes. |
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