KHULNA, April 12, 2023 (BSS) - All sorts of Preparations have already been 
completed to celebrate 'Pahela Baishakh', the first day of the Bengali New 
Year, amid traditional festivities on April 14 next.
 
Meanwhile, People are thronging the city's different markets to buy Baishakhi 
clothes for their near and dear ones.
 
Khulna District Administration, different Socio-cultural organisations and 
Political parties have taken elaborate programmes to mark 'Pahela Baishakh' 
in Khulna city.

Khulna District Administration will begin the day with a colourful procession 
and Mangal Shovajatra, which will start from Khulna Railway Station premises 
and will end at Khulna District Shilpakala Academy in the morning.
 
Afterward, a discussion about the heritage and history of Bengali New Year 
will be held at Shilpakala Academy Auditorium at 9:30am followed by a 
cultural programme and prize distribution ceremony.
 
Khulna district office of Bangladesh Shishu Academy will organize a drawing 
and essay competition for children on the occasion. Khulna Divisional Museum 
will be kept open for all on that day.
 
All educational institutions including Khulna University (KU), Khulna 
University of Engineering and Technology (KUET) will celebrate colourful 
'Pahela Baishakh,' programmes by their own arrangement.
 
Khulna district Jail and 'Shishu Paribar' (Orphanage) will organise a 
traditional cultural programme on their own premises while various handicraft 
items made by prisoners will be exhibited on the jail premises. 

Improved diets will be served at local hospitals, jail and orphanages on the 
occasion.

Upazilas of the district will carry out similar programmes in line with the 
national programme.
 
Khulna City Corporation (KCC) will host daylong celebration programmes. Mayor 
Talukder Abdul Khaleque will participate in most of the programmes.
 
Sammilito Sangskritik Zote, Udichi, Students of Fine Arts Discipline of 
Khulna University (KU) will bring out a colourful procession (Mongol 
Shovajatra) and will organise discussion meeting and cultural programmes.

Awami League, BNP, Jatiya Party, Sammiltya Sankskritik Jote, among others, 
will celebrate 'Pahela Baishakh' in different ways.

Talking to BSS, Deputy Commissioner Khondokar Yasir Arefin said District 
Administration will celebrate the day in limited scale excluding 'Panta 
Utsob' and cultural programmes due to the holy month of Ramadan.

Meanwhile, Khulna Metropolitan Police (KMP) has taken three tires security 
measures to celebrate the 'Pahela Baishakh', said Rakibul Islam, additional 
commissioner of the KMP, on Wednesday. 
 
KMP would be deployed over 2,000 members of law enforcement agencies on the 
day in Khulna city for ensuring peaceful celebration of the Bengali New Year.

Plain cloth Police, Mobile Petrol team, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) would be 
deployed while huge electronic devices including close circuit cameras have 
been set up to mark 'Pahela Baishakh'.

He also requested the city dwellers including cultural organisations, 
university students for not carrying any bags and not to tune 'Bhubhujela' 
during the "Mongal Shovajatra".