The public holiday 2016 of Bangladesh has been published. The public administration ministry of Bangladesh has finalized the public holiday calendar for 2016 including in it 02 days of optional holiday for the ethnic minorities during their Boishabi festival.

According to the calendar, employees of government, semi-government, autonomous and semi-autonomous offices will have 14 days Public Holidays and also 08 days leave by the executive order.

Government employees will get 08 days’ leave on executive order. The holidays on executive order are Bangla New Year on April 14, Shab-E-Barat on May 23, Shab-E-Qadar on July 3, pre and post Eid-Ul-Fitir on July 5 and July 7, pre and post Eid-Ul-Azha on September 11 and September 13 and Ashura on October 12.

Besides, employees of other specific religion will enjoy maximum 03 days’ optional holiday as per the earlier consent from the appropriate authority.

Bangladesh Public Holiday 2016
Occasion	Date	Day	Number of Days
International Mother Language Day	February 21, 2016	Sunday	01
Birth anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman	March 17, 2016	Thursday	01
Independence Day	March 26, 2016	Saturday	01
Bangla New Year	April 14, 2016	Thursday	01
May Day	May 1, 2016	Sunday	01
Buddha Purnima	May 21, 2016	Saturday	01
Shab-e-Barat	May 23, 2016	Monday
Jamatul Wida	July 1, 2016	Friday	01
Shab-e-Qadar	July 3, 2016	Sunday	01
Eid-ul-Fitr	July 5, 6 & 7, 2016	Tuesday,Wednesday and Thursday	03
National Mourning Day	August 15, 2016	Monday	01
Janmashtami	August 25, 2016	Thursday	01
Eid-ul-Azha	September 11, 12 &13 , 2016	Sunday,Monday & Tuesday	03
Durga Puja	October 11, 2016	Tuesday	01
Ashura	October 12, 2016	Wednesday	01
Victory Day	December 16 , 2016	Friday	01
Christmas	December 25 , 2016	Sunday	01

Public Holidays 2015 in Bangladesh-National Public Holidays 2015 BD

Goverment Holiday 2015 By Bangladesh Bank

National Public Holidays 2015 for Bangladesh by has been approved by the Government of Peoples Republic of Bangladesh. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina chairing a cabinet meeting at Secretariat in Dhaka approved the holidays for 2015.

Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said there would be 15 general holidays or public holidays in 2015
alongside 8 (eight) holidays by the executive order of the government.

The Fifteen general holidays include 9 weekly holidays while out of the eight holidays by executive order of the government, there would be 3 weekly holidays.

Bangladesh Holidays 2014-List of Public Holiday Bangladesh 2014

Ministry of Public Administration, Government of Peoples Republic of Bangladesh has published the Public Holidays 2014 of Bangladesh as below. Some Holidays are the matter of the sight of the Moon.

Bangladesh Public Holiday 2014

Public Holidays Bangladesh 2013 - List of Bangladesh Holiday 2013

List of Public Holidays Bangladesh 2013 :

List of Public Holiday Bangladesh 2013

Holiday	Date	No of Holidays
Eid-e-Miladun-Nabi (S)	January 25, Friday	01 day
Shahid Day & International Mother Language Day	February 21, Thursday	01 day
Birthday of the father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman	March 17, Sunday	01 day
Independence & National Day	March 26, Tuesday	01 day
Bengali New Year's Day	April 14, Sunday	01 day
May Day	May 01, Wednesday	01 day
Buddha Purnima (Baishakhi Purnima)	May 23, Thursday	01 day
Shab-e-Bara	June 25, Tuesday	01 day
Bank Holiday	July 01, Monday	01 day
*Jumatul Wida	August 02, Friday	01 day
*Shab-e-Qadar	August 06, Tuesday	01 day
*Eid-ul-Fitr	August 08,09 & 10 Thursday, Friday & Saturday	03 days
National Mourning Day	August 15, Thursday	01 day
*Shuva Janmashtami	August 28, Wednesday	01 day
Durga Puja (Bijoya Dashami)	October 14, Monday	01 day
*Eid-ul-Azha	October 15,16 & 17, Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday	03 days
*Moharrum (Ashura)	November 14, Thursday	01 day
Victory Day	December 16, Monday	01 day
Christmas Day	December 25, Wednesday	01 day
Bank Holiday	December 31, Tuesday	01 day
	Total	24 days