Eid Holidays End Today; Offices, Courts, and Banks to Reopen Tomorrow
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The seven-day holiday for the holy Eid-ul-Azha ends today, Sunday. From tomorrow, Monday (June 1), government and private offices, courts, banking and insurance institutions, and the country's capital market will resume operations.
On May 14, the Ministry of Public Administration issued a notification
declaring a seven-day holiday for Eid-ul-Azha. The government announced that all government, semi-government, autonomous, semi-autonomous, and private offices would remain closed from May 25 to May 31, 2026.
This government-declared holiday ends today, Sunday. After the holidays, regular activities will resume in government, semi-government, autonomous, semi-autonomous, and private offices, banks, insurance companies, financial institutions, and the stock market. Although some bank branches remained open on a limited scale before Eid, normal transactions will resume in all banks across the country from Monday.
Regular trading will also begin at the Dhaka and Chittagong Stock
Exchanges. Meanwhile, people have started returning to the capital as the Eid holidays end.
On Saturday and Sunday, working people were seen returning to Dhaka from various parts of the country via road, rail, and waterways. However, significant passenger pressure has not yet been observed on the roads. Many buses are arriving half-full.
Adilur Rahman, an employee of a private company returning to Dhaka from Chittagong, said there is no traffic jam and passenger pressure is not high. He was able to return without any trouble. As offices are to open on Sunday, he left on Saturday night. Yasir
Arafat, who returned to Dhaka from Barishal on Saturday night, said
people have started returning to Dhaka, but passenger pressure has not yet increased. He arrived in the evening on a full bus. Speaking to
fellow passengers, most said they were returning to Dhaka after the Eid holidays.
However, according to concerned parties, the level of activity in office areas on the first working day after Eid may be relatively low this year, as is the case every year. Similarly, on the first working day in the banking district, transaction pressure is usually low except for urgent needs. Nevertheless, activity is expected to increase throughout the week as various financial and commercial tasks that accumulated during the holidays are quickly processed.
