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BSS, Rangpur

The district administration has chalked out elaborate programmes in celebration of the Independence Day on March 26 in a befitting manner, officials said here today. The programmes were chalked out in a meeting at the conference hall of Rangpur Collectorate with Deputy Commissioner Khondker Atiar Rahman in the chair. It was attended by officials of different government, non-government and voluntary organisations, freedom fighters, heads of the educational institutions, professionals, socio-cultural activists, leaders of the businessmen community, local elite, journalists and lawyers.

The programmes include heralding of 21 gun salutes at Rangpur Police Line ground and placing of floral wreaths at the altar of the central Shaheed Minar at zero hour and monument of martyred freedom fighters, hoisting of the national flag atop all government, semi-government, private and public buildings, educational institutions, reception to the freedom fighters with floral wreaths, screening of documentary films at different cinema halls and other places.