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Puja shopping at its peak in city
DHAKA, Oct 14, 2018 (BSS) – With only a day left for Durga Puja, one of the biggest religious festivals of the Hindu community, city shopping malls are abuzz with a large number of customers looking for buying new dresses and lifestyle items.
Barring a few, the city markets were seen more or less busy with selling their commodities as customers were moving from one shopping centre to another since morning. People are purchasing items of their own choice with huge enthusiasm.
While visiting different shopping malls and footpath shops in the capital today, this correspondent found that salesmen of different markets, footpaths and makeshift sales centers were bustling with shoppers.
“People of the Hindu community are crowding in the shopping mall to buy dresses, sharees or other items. We are passing busy time ahead of Puja,” a shop owner at Bashundhara City Shopping Mall told BSS here today.
Another shop manager of Bailey Road said sales showed an upward trend in the last couple of days and they are spending busy time selling all kinds of clothes, especially “Panjabi” and “salwar”.
Pinku Saha, a customer at Dhaka New Market, said “I am purchasing clothes for my family members who stay in my hometown Pabna as our Durga Puja begins tomorrow. I have purchased dresses for my eight-year-old niece. She called me over phone to buy the dress for her.”
The government has undertaken fool-proof security measures to ensure smooth holding of the Durga Puja.
“We have banned the use of crackers and all sorts of drugs during the festivities of Durga Puja. Law enforcers are being deployed for five days from the first day tomorrow at all Puja mandaps until the immersion on October 19,” Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Md Asaduzzaman Mia told newsmen after visiting security measures at Dhakeshwari National Temple.
As many as 31,272 permanent and temporary pandals of Durga Puja have been erected across the country including 234 in the capital city. This year puja pandals have been increased by 1195 compared to previous year.
BSS/Spl/KUC/MKD/1620 hrs