Over 73 lakh SIM subscribers of different mobile operators have left Dhaka for their respective village homes  in the last four days to celebrate  Eid-ul-Fitr with their near and dear ones.

A total of 43,09,216 SIM subscribers have left the capital  in the last two days, Posts,Telecommunications and Information Technology Minister Mustafa Jabbar shared the information through a Facebook post on Sunday.

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He shared a chart provided by mobile operators  that showed 1,932,990 mobile SIM subscribers left the capital on April 29 and 2,376,226 on April 30.

Of them, 1,862,136 were Grameenphone users; 1,176,340 Robi users, 1,124,732 Banglalink users, and 146,008 Teletalk users.

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Mustafa Jabbar said approximately another 30 lakh SIM users left Dhaka in the previous two days.