A nine-day divisional book fair has been opened in Khulna.
The opening ceremony was held on Tuesday (10 November) on the grounds of the divisional commissioner’s office in Boyra in the city, presided over by Khulna Divisional Commissioner Md Abdullah Harun. KDA chairman SM Shafiqul Alam, Deputy Commissioner Hure Jannat, National Book Centre director Afsana Begum and Ministry of Cultural Affairs deputy secretary Amitabh Parag Talukder spoke as special guests.
Earlier, a colourful procession marking the fair set out from New Market in the city and ended at the fairground. Officials of government offices, teachers and students of educational institutions and people from various walks of life took part.
The fair, which begins today, will be open to all until 18 November, from 3pm to 10pm every day and from 10am to 10pm on government holidays. There will be cultural programmes every day, readings of poets’ own work, and poetry recitation, extempore speech and quiz contests for children and young people.
To liven up the fair, three seminars will be held on three days on “Culture and morality”, “Humanism and world peace” and “Bangladeshi nationalism and multiparty democracy”. Each day three book buyers will be rewarded through a coupon draw.
The fair has 90 stalls in all: 71 for publishers from Dhaka, nine for divisional and district offices, and one each for the police control room, an information centre, a nursery, a readers’ corner and journalists. There will also be five food stalls.
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