DHAKA, March 20, 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 today.
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 today, 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.