A 2-day zakat fair titled: “Making A Difference With Zakat” is going to begin at Aloki Community Centre in Tejgaon Link Road area on Saturday.
Centre for Zakat Management (CZM) will organise the fair with the sponsorship of a number of reputed banks and private business houses including Exim Bank, Rahimafrooz, Kohinoor Chemical, Rahim Steel.
Eminent economist Prof Wahiduddin Mahmud, chairman of Economic Research Group, will inaugurate the zakat fair.
The exhibition will have stalls of different organisations working with zakat related issues, said former energy secretary AMM Nasir Uddin, member secretary of the fair organising committee of the CZM, while addressing a press conference at the Economic Reporters Forum in the city on Thursday.
He informed that there will be a zakat consultation desk and stalls of Islamic books at the fair.
CZM chairman and director of Rahimafrooz Group Niaz Rahim, former secretary Arastoo Khan and CZM chief executive officer Mohammad Ayub Mia were, among others, present.
The organisers said that the exhibition will remain open for visitors from 9 am to 7 pm .
“We have organised such an exhibition to popularise the idea of ensuring social and economic safety and security of the zakat,” Nasir said urging people to visit the fair to learn about the accurate calculation of zakat.
He informed that a total of six seminars on different topics will be held at the exhibition venue during the fair.
Former Chief Election Commissioner Justice Muhammad Abdur Rauf, former minister Lt: Gen (Retd) M Nuruddin Khan, former secretary Arastu Khan, former governor of Bangladesh Bank Dr. Saleh Uddin Ahmed, Islami Bank's Consultative Forum Vice Chairman AKM Nurul Fazle Bulbul and many other eminent personalities are expected to attend the Zakat Fair, said the organisers of the fair.