Today is the first day of the month of Baisakh. Bengali is the beginning of the new year. New Bengali year will be added to the Bengali calendar. Boishakh and Bengali together are in Bengali. So there is no end to the excitement of Bengalis about Pahela Baisakh. With the new sun rising in the morning, the New Year will begin on the first dawn of 1432 Bengal.
‘The government has taken up a comprehensive program at the national level to celebrate the ’Bangla New Year 1432‘ with grandeur. The day is a public holiday, the Fine Arts Faculty of Dhaka University will organize ’Burvaran Anand Shobhayatra' and cultural programs in the early morning of Chayanaut in the morning of Ramna Batmule.
In addition, various cultural organizations will celebrate Bengali New Year with due dignity. Bengali New Year program will be started with the performance of National Anthem and ‘Eso Hey Baishakh’ song. The significance of Bengali New Year and the history of Mars procession and inclusion of it as a world culture heritage by UNESCO will be organized by the Ministry of Culture and Bangla Academy.
Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy will organize day-long programmes, Bengali New Year will be organized in all prisons, hospitals and children's families (orphanages) with high quality traditional Bengali food.
The New Year was once celebrated as an Artava festival or a seasonal festival, which was closely related to agriculture, because agriculture was seasonal, and later the Bengali calendar was introduced during the Mughal Emperor Akbar during the Mughal Emperor Akbar.
In the past, the main festival of Bengali New Year was Halkhata, which is completely economic, in villages, towns and towns, traders used to open their old accounts at the beginning of the New Year and open new accounts. On this occasion, they would invite new and old customers and establish business links with them and establish business links with them.
The Bengali year, which was originally implemented in 1556, was initially known as Fosli Sun, later known as Bangabd, but the history of Bengali year was associated with the agricultural rural society, but it also had a connection with the political history during the Pakistan regime.
At the same time, the New Year started in a limited form by the initiative of Chayanot at the civic level in Dhaka. After our great independence, this festival gradually started to influencing the civic life. The non-communal and democratic spirit of Bengalis started to be expressed in the celebration of the first Baisakh year.
In 1989, the first annual Anand Sobhayatra was launched by the Fine Arts Institute of Dhaka University, which on November 30, 2016, UNESCO gave it the status of a World Cultural Heritage.
It is noted that Pahela Boishakh is a public folk festival of Bengalis, and the Bengali New Year is celebrated in a joyful atmosphere.
