UNESCO lists Mangal Shobhajatra as cultural heritage

The Unified Countries Instructive Logical and Social Association (UNESCO) on Wednesday perceived Mangal Shobhajatra, a Bangla New Year festivity parade, as an elusive social legacy of mankind.

The UNESCO concocted the choice at the eleventh session of its Intergovernmental Board of trustees Meeting in Addis Ababa of Ethiopia.

The Mangal Shobhajatra has been classified on the agent rundown of the impalpable social legacy of mankind of the UNESCO.

Mangal Shobhajatra is a celebration sorted out by understudies and instructors of Dhaka College's Workforce of Artistic work Bangladesh, open to the general population to observe Pahela Baishakh (Bangla New Year's Day).

The custom of Mangal Shobhajatra started in 1989 when understudies, disappointed with living under military manage, needed to acquire individuals the group seek after a superior future, said the UNESCO.

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