Dak Bhaban, Dhaka

May 27, 2021

A commemorative postage stamp on the Inauguration of Newly Constructed Dak Bhawan, Bangladesh :

Issued by Bangladesh

Issued on May 27, 2021

Issued for : To celebrate the occasion of ‘the Inauguration of Newly Constructed Dak Bhaban’, Bangladesh Post has issued 01 (One) Commemorative stamp of Tk. 10 (ten), 01 (one) First Day Cover of Tk. 10 (ten), a Data Card of Tk. 5 (five) and a Special Canceller.

Designer : Mr. Sanjiv Kanti Das

Type : Stamp, Mint Condition

No. of Stamp : 01 (One) Piece

Colour : Multicolour

Denomination of Stamp : Tk. 10/- (Ten)

Size of Stamp : 32 mm x 48 mm

Perforation of Stamps : 12.5

Qnt of Stamps : 50,000 (Fifty Thousand) pcs

Process of Printing : Offset

Printer : The Security Printing Corporation (Bangladesh) Ltd., Gazipur-1703

About :

Postal Communication exists from the ancient age. The evidences of existence of earliest postal system in the subcontinent were found in the Vedic works of Atharvaveda record. The postal service of Bangladesh is an inseparable part of the subcontinent’s ancient Postal heritage. During the Great Liberation War of Bangladesh the Mujibnagar Government setup a Postal service with more than 50 field Post Offices in different front or border areas, fully or partially administered by the Mukti Bahini (Liberation force). Field Post Masters and Scouts were appointed for carrying mails. Mujibnagar Government released 08 definitive stamps, which were the first stamps of Bangladesh on 29 July 1971 simultaneously from the secretariat of Mujibnagar Government, Bangladesh diplomatic missions and the House of Commons in London.
After the emergence of Bangladesh as an independent and sovereign state in 16 December 1971 the Directorate of Posts formally and officially started functioning from 20 December, 1971. It is a service oriented government organization under the Posts and Telecommunication Division, Ministry of Posts, Telecommunication & Information Technology. It is responsible for running postal and postal related services within the country and also with other countries of the world. Though the Bangladesh Post is a quite old organization but it had no building of its own for its Head Quarters.
A 14 (fourteen) storied building with 02 (two) basements with all modern facilities as the model of Post Box on 75 acres of land in the Sher-E-Bangla Nagar Area of Dhaka City has been constructed as the Head Quarters of the Directorate of Posts.
Aims and objectives of the project:
- To establish individual Head Quarters of the Directorate of Posts, to ensure efficient and skillful administrative activities free from any obstacles, to run the activities of the Head Quarters of the Directorate of Posts centrally through well equipped modern machineries and information technologies and to create a healthy and developed working environment.
The opening of the newly built Dak Bhaban as the Head Quarters of the Directorate of Post left behind an unique legacy of being inaugurated in the year of the Golden Jubilee of Independence and in the Mujib Year (Mujib Borsho) by the Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina whose beloved and very glorified great father, the Great Hero of Independence, the Great Architect of Independent and Sovereign Bangladesh and the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, under whose dynamic, charismatic and magical leadership and statesmanship Bangladesh became a member of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) on 7^th February 1973. The newly built Dak Bhaban will remain standing as a remarkable and unprecedented visual manifestation of an epic testimony of eternal postal heritage.
Narrator:
Shafiee Billah Jabber
Son of Martyred Intellectual Abdul Jabbar of Bangladesh Liberation War and
Author of the Trust: Martyred Intellectuals’ Memorial Trust, Bangladesh.
Editor and Publisher: The Daily Asian Express and Fortnightly City of Joy.