This year the rate of minimum Sadakatul Fitra has been fixed at Taka 115 per head while the maximum amount is Taka 2,970.
The National Fitra Fixing Committee on Thursday took the decision at a meeting held at the Islamic Foundation Conference Room at Baitul Mukarram National Mosque in Dhaka with the committee chairman and Khatib of the mosque Hafez Maulana Mufti Mohammad Ruhul Amin in the chair.
According to the Islamic Shariah, Fitra can be paid by any of the products like flour, barley, raisins, dates and cheese and these Fitra is fixed on the basis of the market price of flour, barley, dates, raisins and cheese collected from all parts of the country.
Fitra is an obligatory charity distributed to the poor at the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Fitra is paid to the poor before the jamaat (congregation) of Eid-ul-Fitr.
Last year, the minimum amount of Fitra was fixed at Tk 115 and a maximum at Tk 2,640 per person.