Great improvement!
In my sixty years of life, I have joined the city's main Eid congregation at National Eidgah during Eid-ul -Fitr & Eid-ul -Azha many a time. I am well accustomed to the poor arrangement of Dhaka City Corporation at the National Eidgah.
So, on 28 Nov' 09 on the occasion of Eid-ul Azha, like thousands of other Mussullis, I was taken aback at the lavishness in the arrangement for the general people at the National Eidgah. The leaking Shamiyana of tattered sheets had given way to a huge waterproof cover. In place of adirty & soggy sheets covering one third of the Shamiyana, every inch of the ground was covered with a “farash” prepared with good quality durre of gleaming white sheets of cloth. Except the very poor mike service, the arrangement was excellent.
Later, I learned that the then Chief Justice was shocked to see the plight of the Mussullis due to rain during the last Eid-ul Fitr at the non-VIP section of the National Eidgah. So, he directed the authorities of the Dhaka City Corporation to erect a waterproof cover over the entire area of the National Edigah & to lay farash covering every inch of the ground , like the VIP section of the tent during Eid congregations in future.
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