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FLAG-HOIST-PROCEDURE
PID reminds flag hoisting procedure for Feb 21
DHAKA, Feb 13, 2019 (BSS) – Press Information Department (PID) today
issued a statement detailing the flag hoisting procedure as the government
reminded all to keep the national standard half-mast to honour the 1952
Language Martyrs on February 21.
“The national flag will be hoisted half-mast across the country on Shaheed
Dibash and International Mother Language Day on February 21,” an official
release said.
The PID simultaneously elaborated the hoisting ceremony saying the
national flag would have to be first revealed fully with the sun rise on the
day and then it would have to be lowered to half-mast position.
At the end of the day, the flag would have to be hoisted fully again and
it would have to be brought down slowly to be wrapped up.
The statement also urged all to use the national flag with proper
measurement as pointed out in the country’s constitution.
“The ‘National Flag’ will be in bottle green and rectangular in size in
the proportion of length to width 10: 6 bearing a red circle on the body of
the green. The red circle will have a radius of one-fifth of the length of
the flag. Its center will be placed on the intersecting point of the
perpendicular drawn from the nine-twentieth part of the length of the flag
and the horizontal line drawn through the middle of its width,” the
constitution read.
In line with the practice the national flags are hoisted half-mast atop
all government, semi-government, autonomous, private buildings and
Bangladeshi diplomatic missions abroad in observance of the day.
BSS/PR/SRH/GMR/1506 hrs