Adopting Bangla Calendar
A very interesting and meaningful article on the subject was published in a local English daily on 31st March. This writer read and appreciated all the articles in it which were meaningful and some instructive. Syed Muazzem Ali's write-up entitled "Bring the Bangla Calendar in Our National Life" was based on logical considerations, maintaining the influence of the rainy season in the annual development program.
More often than not, it cannot be completed before 30 June, the closing day of the financial year as reasoned by the writer in his presentation.
Since the AL is committed to introducing Bangla in all avenues of the country, then it will be in the fitness of things that this parliament adopts the Bangla Calender for Bangladesh! All that is needed is commitment and determination to have this done. Our next financial year should start from 1st of Boishakh in 2011. The day will fall on 14 April 2011, according to the present Roman calendar. We should set our financial year from14th April to the next 13th April.
I believe this should help us in formulating our annual development plan and keeping to it, without the usual trend to carry over, since the rainy season invariably delays the development work now between July to June of the financial year.
I am sure people will appreciate this move to change our calendar. It will be an achievement for the government run by the Awami League, and people will remember it for decades to come!
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