The government has set office hours for the month of Ramadan from 9am to 3:30pm, with a 15-minute break for Zuhr prayer. This decision came at a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her office in Dhaka on Wednesday.
The cabinet approved the new office hours for government, semi-government, autonomous and semi-autonomous organisations, Cabinet Secretary Md Mahbub Hossain said at a briefing at the Secretariat after the weekly cabinet meeting.
However, banks, insurance companies, financial institutions, post, railway, hospitals, state-run mills and factories and other emergency service-providing organisations will fix their own office time considering their own laws and public interest.
Besides, the Supreme Court will fix the office timing for all courts which are under its authority.
The holy month of Ramadan is expected to begin on March 12, subject to sighting the moon.
