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Cabinet fixes Ramadan office time from 9am to 3.30pm

The Cabinet today fixed the office time during Ramadan from 9.00 am to 3.30 pm for all offices of government, semi-government, autonomous and semi-autonomous bodies.

The decision was taken in the weekly cabinet meeting held at the Prime Minister’s Office at Tejgaon in the capital with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair, BSS reported.

As per the decision, all offices will have a 15-minute break for Johr prayers from 1.15 pm to 1.30 pm.

Senior Secretary (Coordination and Reforms) of the Cabinet Division Dr Md Shamsul Arefin briefed reporters at Bangladesh Secretariat in Dhaka after the meeting.

He said banks, companies, insurance companies, financial institutions, post, railway, hospitals, state-run mills factories and other emergency service providing organisations will fix their own office time.