Streets of Dhaka city still wear mostly a deserted look as a large section of Eid holidaymakers, who have left the capital to enjoy the holy festival with their dear and near ones, are yet to come back. Bulk of the holidaymakers who have returned Maximum people are employees of different public and private institutions as offices resumed on Sunday.
The vacationers are returning by inter-district buses and trains. As a result, huge crowds were seen at the railway stations as well as bus and launch terminals. Harunur Rashid, a government official, who was going to his office by a city bus on Monday, said "I went to Rangpur to enjoy the Eid with my family. I came back Saturday night and joined my office the following day."
The five-day holidays, three days on account of Eid and two days of weekend, begun on Tuesday last and ended on Saturday. Most of the people had left for their village homes before Eid. The presence of people in the city streets was rare during the holidays. According to unofficial data, about 80 per cent city-dwellers are outsiders. So, almost all of them went to their village homes during the Eid festival. Only the permanent residents of the city and a small portion of the outsiders remained here to observe the festival.
On the holidays, the city-streets looked vacant with a few numbers of people visiting their relatives' house in the city. The city is expected to get back familiar bustling look by the next week when most of the holidaymakers will return. Most of the working class people, especially the day labourers and small traders, who left Dhaka on the Eid Day or following days are expected to come back by that time.
