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River Research Institute (RRI) is a national organization working as a statutory public authority under the Ministry of Water Resources, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. The Director General is the chief executive of this Institute and responsible for implementation of the decision approved by the BoG. It consists of three directorates namely, Hydraulic Research, Geotechnical Research, and Administration and Finance.
RRI has been established in view of devising plans and actions to develop water resources in a sustainable manner to meet the development needs of Bangladesh. Since its establishment RRI has been conducting multi-disciplinary and problem oriented tests, studies and researches in the field of River Hydraulics, Hydraulics of Structure and Irrigation, Coastal Hydraulics, Soil Mechanics, Material Testing & Quality Control, Sediment Technology, Hydro-chemistry & Geo-chemistry and Instrumentation. The results of such tests and researches are playing a very vital role in providing information and recommendations regarding different water resources development plans and interventions.
Physical modelling facilities are available in RRI since its establishment and recently the mathematical modelling facilities are added. Both physical and mathematical model have been proved to be very essential for sound engineering judgments to find out solutions for different water resources development projects. In view of this RRI is trying to adopt hybrid modelling approach by using physical as well as mathematical modelling to improve the understanding of different water systems which may lead to safe and less expensive solutions for engineering problems. This Institute is responsible for conducting hydrodynamic and morphological study of the river mainly to derive various design parameters of the barrage, head regulator and river training works.
The samples/specimens of soil, water, sediment and construction material samples from different projects of BWDB and other Govt. and non Govt. organizations for conducting tests as specified by the Clients. RRI has been publishing News Letter three times a year since September 1998. The description of activities of different projects and its progress, research activities, cultural activities and different types of news of RRI are included in the News Letter. The News Letter is distributed to the relevant organizations/institutes/agencies with free of cost. As a result concerned organizations/institutes/ agencies have been familiarized with the scope of works and research activities of RRI.
RRI has also been publishing journal named ‘Technical Journal’ yearly since 1991. RRI’s technical journal has already got recognition in 2000 by ISSN and its serial has been registered as ISSN 1606-9277. Multidisciplinary research activities and case studies of different projects are included in the journal. RRI has a Board of Governors (BoG) comprising nine numbers Chaired by the Honorable Minister, Ministry of Water Resources, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh which reviews and evaluates the activities of RRI and approves important proposals in order that the institute can run with all its activities properly.
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গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদশ সরকারের পানিসম্পদ মন্ত্রনালয়ের অধীনে একটি জাতীয় প্রতিষ্ঠান হল নদী গবেষণা ইন্সটিটিউট (আরআরআই)। একজন মহাপরিচালক এই ইন্সটিটিউটের সর্বচ্চো পদে আসীন আছেন যিনি বোর্ড অফ গভর্নরস এর অনুমোদিত সিদ্ধান্তগুলো বাস্তবায়নের দায়িত্ব পালন করেন। এই ইন্সটিটিউটের অধীনে তিনটি বিভাগ রয়েছে। এগুলো হলঃ হাইড্রলিক রিসার্চ, জিওটেকনিক্যাল রিসার্চ এবং প্রশাসন ও অর্থ।
বাংলাদেশের উন্নয়নের জন্য চাহিদা অনুযায়ী পানিসম্পদ গড়ে তোলার পরিকল্পনা এবং কার্যক্রম গ্রহনের জন্য আরআরআইকে প্রতিষ্ঠা করা হয়। প্রতিষ্ঠার পর থেকেই আরআরআই বিভিন্ন বিষয় যেমনঃ রিভার হাইড্রলিক্স, স্থাপনা এবং সেচ সংক্রান্ত হাইড্রলিক্স, কোসটাল হাইড্রলিক্স, সয়েল মেকানিকস, ম্যাটেরিয়াল টেস্টিং এন্ড কোয়ালিটি কন্ট্রোল, সেডিমেণ্ট টেকনোলজি, হাইড্র কেমিস্ট্রি এন্ড জিও কেমিস্ট্রি এন্ড ইন্সট্রুমেনশনসহ বিভিন্ন সমস্যার উপর নানা ধরনের পরীক্ষা, সমীক্ষা এবং গবেষণা পরিচালনা করছে। বিভিন্ন পানিসম্পদ উন্নয়ন সংক্রান্ত পরিকল্পনা এবং পদক্ষেপ গ্রহনের ক্ষেত্রে এসব পরীক্ষা নিরীক্ষা ও গবেষণা বিভিন্ন তথ্য এবং সুপারিশ প্রদানের মাধ্যমে গুরুত্বপূর্ণ ভুমিকা পালন করছে।
প্রতিষ্ঠার পর থেকেই আরআরআইতে ফিজিকাল মডেলিং এর সুবিধা রয়েছে। সম্প্রতি এখানে গানিতিক মডেলিং এর ব্যবস্থা যোগ করা হয়েছে। বিভিন্ন পানিসম্পদ উন্নয়ন সম্পর্কিত প্রকল্পে নির্ভুল বিচারের মাধ্যমে সমাধান বের করার ক্ষেত্রে ফিজিকাল মডেলিং এবং গানিতিক মডেলিং এর প্রয়োজনীয়তা উপলব্ধি করা গিয়েছে। এরই পরিপ্রেক্ষিতে বিভিন্ন পানি ব্যবস্থাপনাকে ভালভাবে বুঝে প্রকৌশল সম্পর্কিত সমস্যার নিরাপদ এবং সুলভ সমাধান অর্জনের লক্ষ্যে আরআরআই ফিজিকাল মডেলিং এবং গানিতিক মডেলিং ব্যবহারের মাধ্যমে হাইব্রিড মডেলিং এপ্রোচ প্রনয়নের চেষ্টা করে চলেছে। বাঁধ, হেড রেগুলেটর এবং বিভিন্ন প্রশিক্ষন কার্যক্রম প্রণয়নের উদ্দেশ্যে এই ইন্সটিটিউট নদীর গতিপথ এবং নদীতে প্রাণী ও উদ্ভিদের অস্তিত্বের উপর বিভিন্ন ধরনের সমীক্ষা পরিচালনা করছে।
এছাড়া আরআরআই মাটি, পানি, পলির নমুনা ছাড়াও বিডব্লিউডিবির বিভিন্ন প্রকল্প এবং অন্যান্য সরকারি ও বেসরকারি প্রতিষ্ঠান থেকে প্রাপ্ত নির্মাণ সামগ্রীর নমুনাও পরীক্ষা করে থাকে। ১৯৯৮ সালের সেপ্টেম্বর থেকে আরআরআই বছরে তিনবার নিউজ লেটার প্রকাশ করে আসছে যেখানে বিভিন্ন প্রকল্পে আরআরআই এর কার্যক্রম, গবেষণা কর্মকাণ্ড, সাংস্কৃতিক কার্যক্রম, সহ বিভিন্ন খবর প্রকাশিত হয়ে থাকে। এই নিউজ লেটারটি বিনামূল্যে বিভিন্ন সমমনা প্রতিষ্ঠানে প্রদান করা হয়ে থাকে। এর ফলে সমমনা প্রতিষ্ঠানগুলো আরআরআইএর কাজের পরিধি এবং গবেষণা কার্যক্রম সম্পর্কে অবহিত হচ্ছে।
এছাড়া ১৯৯১ সাল থেকে আরআরআই ‘টেকনিক্যাল জার্নাল’ নামে একটি জার্নাল নিয়মিত প্রকাশ করে আসছে। ২০০০ সালে এই জার্নালটি আইএসএসএন সনদ অর্জন করে এই জার্নালটিকে একটি ক্রম প্রধান করা হয় (আইএসএসএন ১৬০৬-৯২৭৭)। এই জার্নালে বিভিন্ন ক্ষেত্রে পরিচালিত গবেষণা কার্যক্রম এবং বিভিন্ন প্রকল্পের কেস স্টাডি অন্তর্ভুক্ত করা হয়ে থাকে।
আরআরআই এর রয়েছে নয় সদস্য বিশিষ্ট বোর্ড অফ গভর্নরস। গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদশ সরকারের মাননীয় পানিসম্পদ মন্ত্রী বোর্ড অফ গভর্নরসের সভাপতি। বোর্ড অফ গভর্নরস আরআরআই এর কার্যক্রম পর্যালোচনা এবং মূল্যায়ন করা ছাড়াও ইন্সটিটিউটের কার্যক্রম নির্বিঘ্নে পরিচালনার উদ্দেশ্যে বিভিন্ন গুরুত্বপূর্ণ প্রস্তাবনা অনুমোদন করে থাকে।
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[name] => Rajshahi University
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University of Rajshahi or Rajshahi University (Bengali: রাজশাহী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় Raajshaahi Bish-shobid-daloy) is a public university located in Rajshahi, a city in north-western Bangladesh. University of Rajshahi was established in 1953, the second university to be established in what was then East Pakistan.
The university's forty-seven departments are organized into nine faculties. Rajshahi University is located in a 753 acres (3 km2) campus in Motihar, 3 kilometres (2 mi) from the Rajshahi city center. With 25,000 students and close to 1000 academic staff, it is one of the largest universities in Bangladesh. In addition to hosting programs in the Engineering, arts, sciences,agriculture, social sciences, business studies and medical sciences, the university houses a number of institutes of higher studies. This is the premier university in Bangladesh to have online subscription of world renowned journals. The first proposal to establish a university came in 1917, when Calcutta University created the Sadler Commission to assess the university system in Bengal. However, the recommendations of the report had no immediate consequences.
Following the Partition of India in 1947, what is now Bangladesh became East Pakistan. University of Dhaka, established in 1921, was the only university in East Pakistan at the time. Demand for a university in the northern part of East Pakistan gained momentum when two universities were established in West Pakistan without the establishment of any in the east. Students of Rajshahi Collegewere at the forefront of the movement demanding a new university. Finally, Rajshahi was selected as the home for the second university in East Pakistan and the Rajshahi University Act of 1953 (East Bengal Act XV of 1953) was passed by the East Pakistan provincial Assembly on 31 March 1953. Itrat Hossain Zuberi, the Principal of Rajshahi College was appointed the first Vice-Chancellor of the university. Initially, the university was housed in temporary locations, such as the local Circuit House and Bara Kuthi, an 18th-centuryDutch establishment. B B Hindu Academy, a local school, housed the library, teachers' lounge and the medical centre of the university. The university started out with 20 professors, 161 students (of which 5 were female) and six departments—Bengali, English, History, Law, Philosophy and Economics. In 1964, the offices moved to the permanent campus.
After independence, a new act regarding the administration of the university came into being—the Rajshahi University Act of 1973. The post-independence years saw the university grow steadily in student enrollment and size of the academic staff. However, the 1980s were turbulent years for the university, as the students agitated with other institutions of the country against the military rule of Hossain Muhammad Ershad. Since early 1990s, the university have seen relative calm and lowering of session backlogs, though active student politics remains a contentious issue to date.
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Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (বাংলাদেশ প্রকৌশল বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়), commonly known as BUET (বুয়েট), is a Public Engineering University in Bangladesh. It is the oldest Engineering institution in the region.
In this institution, every year around 1000 students get enrolled in undergraduate and postgraduate programs to study engineering, architecture, and planning. In undergraduate admission test, only about top 17% students can get admitted among 8,000 selected candidates. The total number of teachers are about 500. The University has continued to expand over the last three decades. This includes the construction of new academic buildings, auditorium complex, halls of residence.
"Dhaka Survey School" was established in 1876 as a survey school at Nalgola, in Old Dhaka to train surveyors for the then Government of Bengal of Hindustan. Later, generous grants from Nawab Ahsanullah, a renowned Muslim patron of education and member of the Nawab family of Dhaka, enabled it to expand as a full-fledged engineering school. In recognition of this contribution, the school was renamed to "Ahsanullah School of Engineering". It offered three-year diploma courses in Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. It was moved to its present premises in 1912.
After the partition of India in 1947, it was upgraded to "Ahsanullah Engineering College", as a Faculty of Engineering under the University of Dhaka, offering four-year bachelor's course in Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical and Metallurgical engineering.
In 1962, it was renamed as East Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology (EPUET). A partnership with the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (renamed Texas A&M University in 1963) was forged, and professors from A&M came to teach and to formulate the curriculum. During this period, EPUET offered courses in Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Metallurgical, Chemical engineering and Architecture. After the liberation war of 1971, Bangladesh became independent, and EPUET was renamed to Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).
Several more departments to offer graduate and undergraduate courses in different subjects- Water Resources Engineering, Naval architecture & Marine engineering, Industrial & Production Engineering, Petroleum & Mineral Resources Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, Glass and Ceramic Engineering- were included in the university at different times. In 2007, BUET celebrated 60 years (1947-2007) of engineering education in Bangladesh by arranging a 6 month long series of programs and events.
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Kumradi Darul Ulum Senior Madrasa (কুমড়াদী দারুল উলুম সিনিয়র মাদরাসা), a Madrasa which was built in 1927, by Late Mawlana Mohammad Abdul Aziz. It was the biggest madrasa and Orphanage in Bangladesh. Female and male Muslim students got their Islamic education from this institution. There are two large building might be used for students dormitory. We assume, it was a complete residential Madrasa.
It is located at Kumradi Village of Shibpur Upazila in Narsingdi District. It contains a large area where there are five separate building complex situated in a parallel line. But, four old building has been abandoned in course of time. Only newly built two storied building along with few old building used as Madrasa. Others are just existing as an evidence of time. Some age old people say that, once it was one of the most noisy place in that region, but now we have experienced it as one of the calm & quiet places in this region.
Architectural Layout:
The architectural properties of this Madarsa complex is very simple & regular. Rest of the building of this complex are one storied with plastered rooftop. But, the most front one, just beside the main road is two storied and recent one is as well. The grave yard of the founder of this Madrasa is situated in north-west side the main building. A large pond is situated just behind the grave. There are two main gateway to enter into the madrasa complex, one is in Southern part and another is in north-east side.
Present Condition :
Present condition of these building complex is in very sensitive state. Rest of the buildings are abandoned and has no use for a long time. If proper care is taken, then within a short span of time it could be reused or proper conservation treatment could make this place presentable rather just making it of no use.
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