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MEETING-BIRTH CENTENARY
National Committee to celebrate Bangabandhu Birth Centenary meets
tomorrow
DHAKA, March 19, 2019 (BSS) – The National Committee for the Nationwide
Celebration of the Birth Centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh
Mujibur Rahman is set to draw up elaborate programmes to celebrate the year-
long birth centenary from March 17, 2020 as the body will sit in its maiden
meeting tomorrow.
The joint meeting of the National Committee for the Nationwide Celebration
of the Birth Centenary of Bangabandhu and the Birth Centenary Celebration
National Implementation Committee will be held at the Prime Minister’s Office
(PMO) at 10 am tomorrow, PMO sources said.
In its first meeting, the committee will chalk out elaborate programmes to
celebrate “Mujib Barsho” from March 17, 2020 to March 17, 2021, the sources
said.
Earlier on February 15, the government formed the 102-member National
Committee for the Nationwide Celebration of the Birth Centenary of
Bangabandhu.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been made the president of the committee,
while PM’s former principal secretary Dr Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury became
its member secretary.
The government also constituted the 61-member Birth Centenary Celebration
National Implementation Committee.
National Professor Mohammad Rafiqul Islam and PM’s former principal
secretary Dr Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury have been made president and chief
coordinator of the committee respectively.
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