The government on Tuesday set office hours from 9:00am to 3:30pm for government, semi0government, autonomous and
semi-autonomous organisations for Ramadan with a 15-minute break from 1:15pm.
Ramadan begins in the first week of August.
The offices usually remain open from 9:00am to 5:00pm with an hour's break for launch and the zuhr prayers from 1:00pm to 2:00pm.
The cabinet approved the proposal of the public administration ministry on Ramadan office timing at its weekly meeting at the secretariat. The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, presided over the meeting.
'The Supreme Court along with banks, insurance companies, Bangladesh Railway and other such organisations will set their own timetable for Ramadan according to their rules and regulations,' the prime minister's press secretary Abul Kalam Azad told reporters after the meeting.
The cabinet also adopted a motion of condolence on the deaths of 40, including 38 schoolboys, in the traffic accident at Mirsarai in Chittagong on July 11, he said.
It approved a proposal of the Economic Relations Division for the ratification of the Agreement for the Economic and Technical Cooperation signed between Bangladesh and Kuwait, according to the press secretary.
Source : New Age
