Govt offices to run from 9am to 3:30pm during Ramadan
At present office hours are from 9am to 5pm
The Cabinet Division has fixed office hours in government institutions from 9am to 3:30pm for the month of Ramadan.
Chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, a cabinet meeting on Monday (28 March) set the new office schedule for all government, semi-government, autonomous and semi-autonomous organisations.
Banks, insurance, financial institutions, postal, railway, hospital and state-owned enterprises, factories and other emergency services will be excluded from the changed hours, said Cabinet Secretary Khandaker Anwarul Islam after the meeting at Prime Minister's office.
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The cabinet secretary further said there would be a break for Johar prayers from 1:15pm to 1:30pm in Ramadan. Weekly holidays will be Friday and Saturday as usual.
Ramadan will start on either 3 or 4 April subject to the sighting of the moon. At present office hours are from 9am to 5pm.
