Festival fever persists
Thursday, 24 September 2009
FE Report
Most government and private offices, banks and financial institutions opened Wednesday on the very first working day Wednesday after a three-day Eid-ul-Fitr vacation with very little activities.
In the Bangladesh secretariat, Bangladesh Bank, most private banks and commercial institutions pressure of work was very low as most officers either were still out of town or had left office earlier taking advantage of the near inclement weather.
"Most officials, who left the capital to observe Eid-festival with their families in their ancestral homes, did not return yet," a secretariat official told the FE.
He also forecast that the activity in the secretariat would remain so till September 27.
There is almost no work to execute here, he added.
Bangladesh Bank, the center of country's financial activity, remained deserted due to low attendance.
There have been no major financial transactions Wednesday, a central bank official said.
Officials were seen busy exchanging notes on their Eid purchases and greeting colleagues by embracing each other most of the day.
The country's stock markets remained officially closed on the day, to be reopened on September 27.
Meanwhile, people who had left the capital for their hometowns and villages to celebrate Eid with kith and kin have started returning to the city.
Most government and private offices, banks and financial institutions opened Wednesday on the very first working day Wednesday after a three-day Eid-ul-Fitr vacation with very little activities.
In the Bangladesh secretariat, Bangladesh Bank, most private banks and commercial institutions pressure of work was very low as most officers either were still out of town or had left office earlier taking advantage of the near inclement weather.
"Most officials, who left the capital to observe Eid-festival with their families in their ancestral homes, did not return yet," a secretariat official told the FE.
He also forecast that the activity in the secretariat would remain so till September 27.
There is almost no work to execute here, he added.
Bangladesh Bank, the center of country's financial activity, remained deserted due to low attendance.
There have been no major financial transactions Wednesday, a central bank official said.
Officials were seen busy exchanging notes on their Eid purchases and greeting colleagues by embracing each other most of the day.
The country's stock markets remained officially closed on the day, to be reopened on September 27.
Meanwhile, people who had left the capital for their hometowns and villages to celebrate Eid with kith and kin have started returning to the city.