United News of Bangladesh

The Ministry of Education has instructed the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) not to schedule any examinations during the government announced holiday from September 28 to October 9. The Ministry of Education issued the order signed by Md Rajibul Alam, senior assistant secretary to the Secondary and Higher Education Division, on Wednesday. The government earlier announced a 12-day holiday for all educational institutions across the country from September 28 to October 9 on the occasion of Durga Puja, Bijoya Dashami, Fateha-i-Yazdaham, Prabarana Purnima and Laxmi Puja to celebrate those with festivity and due solemnity. According to the order, holidays in schools will begin on September 28 coinciding with the day of Maha Shasthi. Law enforcers to be deployed from Wednesday for Durga Puja: Home Adviser Government and non-government secondary and lower secondary schools will remain closed for eight days excluding weekends and resume classes on October 8. Colleges under the government and non-government calendar will also close on September 28. With weekends excluded, they will have a 10-day holiday, reopening on October 12 as October 10 and 11 fall on Friday and Saturday. This year, according to the calendar, the five-day main festivities of Durga Puja will begin with Shasthi Puja on September 28, seven days after Mahalaya.