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[name] => Comilla Zila School
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Comilla Zila School is a boy's school in Comilla City. It is one of the oldest schools in the country. It was the only school in Comilla for four decades before the establishment of Nawab Fayjunnesa Girl's High School in 1878. For decades the school has secured first place in scoring highest A+ among the schools under Board of secondary education, Comilla.
History: The school, in the center of Comilla, was established in 1837 by an Englishman named H. G. Legister. It was governmentalized as a high school by the government of British India for teaching English literature and science and named Comilla Zila School. In the 1850s the school building expanded and improved its teaching structure.
Facilities: These school has three academic buildings, an administrative building and two hostels. There is a big field in the school arena. Other facilities include mosque, workshop, auditorium, canteen, shaheed minar, and library. There are fifty teachers and twenty staff. The school has five laboratories. It is one of the best school in Bangladesh. Initially the school conducted only one shift. From 1991 two shifts were introduced: morning and day. Presently all the classes from 5 to 10 are running. There are six sections in each of the classes: ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, and ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ for class five to eight where ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ are in morning shift and day shift. There are two sections in nine and ten; they are 'A' and 'B'.
There are 60 students in each of the sections. For class nine and ten students are distributed into four sections following the same structure with a larger number of students in a class. Almost 2,000 students are studying in the school with 53 teachers. The uniform is a white shirt with white full trousers and white shoes and black belt. The school monogram is printed on the shirt pocket. Usually students are admitted in class 5 and 6. Admission can be considered in other classes if a vacancy is available or if someone is transferred from some other government school. The admission test is usually taken in the first week of January.
Extracurricular activities: Comilla Zilla School cricket team was champion in the National Nirman School Tournament in 1992. BNCC (Bangladesh National Cadet Core), Scouting, Games and sports (mostly athletics, cricket, Badminton, swimming and football), Debating etc.
Cultural activities: each year the students celebrate the Shorosoti Puja on the school field.
Math and language competitions: the school is the champion team of the national math contest, Science fair, Picnic, Social Development program, Participate in Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad held each year.
Notable alumni:
Dhirendranath Datta: Bengali lawyer who was active in the politics of undivided Bengal in pre-partition India and later in East Pakistan (1947–1971). On February 23, 1948, in the Pakistan Constituent Assembly in Karachi, Dhirendranath, as a member of Pakistan National Congress, made a speech calling for Bengali to be made one of the official languages of Pakistan. He served as the Minister of Health and Social Welfare (East Pakistan) in Ataur Rahman Khan's cabinet (1956–58).
Shib Narayan Das: He designed the first national flag of Bangladesh.
Muhammad Anwar Hossain, 2nd Lt. (1-E Bengal): He was the first Shaheed defense officer during Bangladesh Liberation War. Later awarded as Bir Uttom by Bangladesh Government.
Nayeemul Islam Khan: A leading Bengali-language newspaper editor.
General Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan,Chief of Army Staff,Bangladesh Army.
Himangshu Dutta, a music composer in the Bengali music industry.
A.B.M. Khairul Haque: former chief justice of Bangladesh.
Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad: served as the President of Bangladesh.
Connection classroom: Comilla Zila School always thinks one step ahead for assuring the highest learning facility for its students. On that note, in the year 2010, Comilla Zila School joined Connection classroom programme based on an enterprise for establishing an interrelationship among the students of some national and international schools of home and abroad (British school).Through the E-LEARNING system the students of Zila School get linked to that process under the kind observation of BRITISH COUNCIL. In Comilla 4 schools participated in that programme but like all the time zila school was the "SHOW STEALER". With the help of some experienced teachers, students represented the culture, archeology, tradition of Comilla by their rejuvenate presentation. At the same time, the students also rocked the cultural show of SHHEED ABU JAHEED AUDITORIUM.
For that programme, students were selected from different classes who made presentation on different topics related to the city Comilla. Students of CZS showed their both technical and marital skill. A cultural function was organized by the authority to add a new dimension to this programme. That programme was a joint venture of two rival schools COMILLA ZILLA SCHOOL and NAWAB FAIZUNNESA GOVT. GIRLS' SCHOOL. Whole programme was anchored by the students from both institution. Audience were amazed to enjoy that types of function for the first time at the present of two different schools. Principals from three different schools of BRITAIN were the chief guests. And the honorable Headmaster along with two asst. Headmaster were the special guests. And all the teachers from both day and morning shifts were present at that function. The whole programme was a little contribution to establish a friendship among the students of two different country. Actually, it's a part of modern globalization process by which students from every corner can have the same view and same knowledge. And as a part of that motto, the programme of Connection classroom was a huge success.
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[name] => Mongolbaria Kamil Madrasa
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Mongolbaria Kamil Madrasa (মঙ্গলবাড়ীয়া কামিল মাদ্রাসা) is an old educational institute that was established at 1800 AD to enhance the Islamic education. Bangladesh has lot of institutes which are Islamic minded, but only few of those are older like this one. It was established by Nazim Uddin Khondokar (নাজিম উদ্দিন খন্দকার).
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History of Bangladesh Tea Research Institute dates back to 1840 when a pioneer tea garden was established on the slopes of the hills in Chittagong where the Chittagong Club now stands. First commercial tea garden was established in 1857 at Mulnichera in Sylhet. During the partition in 1947, Bangladesh (the then East Pakistan) owned 103 tea estates, covering 26,734 hectares of tea plantation with annual production of 18.36 M. Kg. with a yield of about 639 Kg. per ha. Home consumption was around 13.64 M. Kg. up to 1955. After that home consumption went up rapidly and Government imposed 3% mandatory extension of tea area per year in 1961. Ten years later by 1970, tea area was extended to 42,658 hectares and production was increased to 31.38 M. Kg.
Bangladesh Tea Research Institute (BTRI) is an autonomous organization under the Bangladesh Tea Board (BTB). The tea industry had very limited access to technology immediately after the partition of India in 1947. To solve various problems of growing and manufacturing tea, and to establish the industry on sound scientific footing, the Pakistan Tea Board decided in 1952 to establish a tea research station of its own. As a result the Pakistan Tea Research Station came at its present location at Srimangal on the 28th February, 1957. After liberation, the research station was raised to the status of an institute and names the Bangladesh Tea Research Institute (BTRI) in 1973. Now BTRI is one of the 10 National Agricultural Research System (NARS) institutes of the country.
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বাংলাদেশ চা গবেষণা ইন্সটিটিউটের ইতিহাসের আরম্ভ হয় ১৮৪০ সালে যখন চট্রগ্রামের পাহাড়ের ঢালে (বর্তমানে যেখানে চট্রগ্রাম ক্লাব অবস্থিত) স্থাপন করা হয়েছিল একটি চা বাগান। ১৮৫৭ সালে সিলেটের মালিনীছড়া চা বাগান প্রতিষ্ঠিত করা হয় বাণিজ্যিকভিত্তিতে প্রথমবারের মত চা উৎপাদন করার জন্য। ১৯৪৭ সালে দেশবিভাগের সময় বাংলাদেশে (তদানীন্তন পূর্ব পাকিস্তানে) চা চাষ করা হত ২৬,৭৩৫ হেক্টর জমিতে ১০৩টি চা বাগানে। সেসময় সারা বছর ১৮.৩৬ মিলিয়ন কেজি চা উৎপাদিত হত যা ছিল প্রতি হেক্টরে ৬৩৯ কেজি । ১৯৫৫ সাল পর্যন্ত গৃহ্পর্যায়ে চায়ের চাহিদা ছিল ১৩.৬৪ মিলিয়ন কেজি। এরপর চায়ের চাহিদা দ্রুত বৃদ্ধি পেলে ১৯৬১ সালে সরকার প্রতি বছর চা চাষের জন্য ৩% হারে জমি বৃদ্ধি করা বাধ্যতামূলক করে। এরই ফলশ্রুতিতে দশ বছর পর ১৯৭০ সালে চা চাষের জমির পরিমান বেড়ে দাড়ায় ৪২,৬৫৮ হেক্টরে এবং বার্ষিক উৎপাদন বেড়ে দাড়ায় ৩১.৩৮ মিলিয়ন কেজি।
বাংলাদেশ চা বোর্ডের (বিটিবি)অধীনে একটি স্বায়ত্তশাসিত সংস্থা হল বাংলাদেশ চা গবেষণা ইন্সটিটিউট (বিটিআরআই)। ১৯৪৭ সালের দেশ বিভাগের পর এ দেশের চা শিল্পতে প্রযুক্তির ব্যাবহার ছিল সীমিত। চা চাষ এবং উৎপাদনের ক্ষেত্রে বিভিন্ন সমস্যার সমাধান এবং বিজ্ঞানভিত্তিক চা শিল্প প্রতিষ্ঠার লক্ষ্য নিয়ে তৎকালীন পাকিস্তান চা বোর্ড ১৯৫২ সালে তাদের নিজেদের একটি গবেষণা কেন্দ্র প্রতিষ্ঠা করে। সেই ফলশ্রুতিতে ১৯৫৭ সালের ২৮ ফেব্রুয়ারি তৎকালীন পাকিস্তান চা গবেষণা কেন্দ্র শ্রীমঙ্গলের বর্তমান ঠিকানায় যাত্রা শুরু করে। স্বাধীনতার পর ১৯৭৩ সালে এই কেন্দ্রটিকে একটি বাংলাদেশ চা গবেষণা ইন্সটিটিউটে (বিটিআরআই) রুপান্তর করা হয়। বর্তমানে দেশের ১০টি জাতীয় কৃষি গবেষণা পদ্ধতির (এনএআরএস) একটি হল বাংলাদেশ চা গবেষণা ইন্সটিটিউট।
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[name] => Victoria Public Library
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Victoria Public Library is located at Shukulpotti (শুকুলপট্টি) area in Natore Sadar Upazila. It has been established in the year 1901 during the British Realm. The then British Lord in Bengal was Lord Curzon under British-Indian Army. In that time, this library was established after the name of Queen Victoria, to spread the light of knowledge in these areas. This building is still in use under the local authority. They are renovating a part and restructuring the building to continue with the cause.
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