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Celebration in Dhaka
This celebration is recognized as the Poila Baisakh in Bangladesh and it is a national holiday there. This festivity is directly associated with pastoral life in Bengal. This is one rustic fiesta which turns out an enormous festival, particularly in Dhaka.

Boishakhi fairs are organized on this very day. A variety of rural goods, conventional handwork items, additionally different foodstuffs and sweets are put up for sale here. Boishakhi fairs also offer amusements, such as, jatra (conventional dramas), pala gan, kobigan, jarigan, gambhira gan, gazir gan and alkap gan. The other appeal of these fairs are puppet shows and merry-go-rounds.

The most colourful celebration on this occasion held in Dhaka. People assemble below the banyan tree at Ramna Park to welcome the New Year with Rabindranath Tagore's renowned song, ‘Esho, he Boishakh, Esho Esho’ (Come, O Boishakh, Come, Come). A same ceremony is also celebrated at the Institute of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka. Students and teachers of the institution carry out a lively procession around the University campus.

The last day of the last month of the Bengali Year, ‘Chaitra-Sankranti’, which says farewell to the previous year, celebrate with the same grandeur.