Brief
Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam is an ever memorable epoch-maker of the Bengali literature. He is the noble artist of our national literature, music and culture and this great poet is indeed the symbol of our human feeling. The Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh established the Nazrul Institute in February, 1985 in accordance with the Nazrul Institute Ordinance 12 June 1984 at the ‘Kabibhaban’ (Road 28, House 330-B, Dhanmondi, Dhaka), a house connected with the ever living memory of the poet, with a view to preserving his immortal achievements, conducting research on his life, literature, music and his contribution in different fields, collecting his writings preserving and publication of his writings and its circulation and highlighting his image home and abroad properly.
Justice Abdul Moudud and Talim Hossain were elected president and secretary respectively. Khan-E-Sabur was at one time the chief patron of the Academy. In this initiative, the main purpose was to eshtablish Nazrul Islam as an Islamist poet and activist. On 24 May 1968 at the Engineers’ Institute, Dhaka, Kazi Anwarul Haq, Education Minister of Pakistan, formally inaugurated Nazrul Academy. The Chairman of the Nazrul Academy, Justice Abdul Moudud, presided over the meeting. The Academy was established with three primary objectives: (i) to highlight the role of Nazrul as a modern and progressive ideologies in consistency with the ideology of Pakistan, and (iii) to express solidarity with Pakistani culture and to develop it through Muslim traditions.
After the official formation of the executive committee in August 1967, a two-storied building, located at 117 Outer Circular Road, was hired for the Academy. It started implementing its programmes with a donation of about rupees fifteen thousand. Khan-e-Sabur, Communication Minister of Pakistan, took the initiative of raising the sum from private individuals and institutions. Within a few months, the government approved an annual grant of rupees twenty-five thousand to the Academy. In May 1968, Nazrul Jayanti (Nazrul’s birthday) was observed along with the official inauguration ceremony. Under the auspices of the Academy, a ceremony on the birth anniversary of the poet was held at Darirampur. Principal Ibrahim Khan presided over the function. Under the initiative of the Academy, a hamd-nat jalsha was held at the Engineers’ Institute, Dhaka, on 1 July 1968. In addition to Nazrul Jayanti, the Academy observed other national ceremonies including the birth and death anniversaries of Rabindranath Tagore. The Academy also started to collect songs, and write and publish notations.
After its formal inauguration in 1967, the Academy started two educational institutions: a kindergarten school and a music school All artists who sing Nazrul songs are attached to this music school. The Academy started publishing a journal, shortly after its inception called Nazrul Academy Patrika. Twelve volumes of the journal were published till 1971. In addition to research papers on Nazrul, the journal also included research articles on national literature and culture. The journal is still being published, though it has become irregular now. The cultural activities of the Academy are now mainly confined to giving music lessons. However, the collection of valuable documents, gramophone records, songs and notations is continuing. Some of these works are published periodically.
[Written by: Mohammad Abdul Hye]
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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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Ruhul Amin (Bengali: রুহুল আমিন), better known as Shaheed Mohammad Ruhul Amin, was an engine room artificer in the Bangladesh Navy who was posthumously awarded the nation's highest bravery award for his service during the Liberation War. The Bangladesh Navy warship BNS Shaheed Ruhul Amin is named after him.
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[post_content] => The need for an open university in Bangladesh was felt long ago. The history of distance education in Bangladesh dates back to 1956, when the Education Directorate was assigned with the responsibility for distribution of 200 radio receivers to educational institutions. This led to the creation of an Audio-Visual Cell, which was upgraded to Audio-Visual Education Centre in 1962. No further progress in distance education was made till 1971.
After Independence, Bangladesh faced the challenge of meeting the educational needs of mass people. To meet this challenge the necessity for a new mode of education was widely felt. As a sequel to that feeling, the School Broadcasting Pilot Project was launched in 1978. The project was transformed into National Institute of Educational Media and Technology (NIEMT) in 1983. NIEMT was later replaced by the Bangladesh Institute of Distance Education (BIDE) in 1985. Apart from producing audio-visual materials, BIDE offered the Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) program in distance mode. The success of BIDE encouraged policymakers to take up a major plan for establishing an open university. The plan became a reality in October 1992 when the Bangladesh Open University Act 1992 was passed in the Parliament.
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Dhaka city of Dhaka district. The hall has been named after Lord Curzon who was the Viceroy of India. The hall was built in 1904. After Bengal was partitioned and Dhaka became the new capital of East Bengal and Assam, it was used as the premise of Dhaka college but later after the establishment of University of Dhaka it became part of the University’s science division.
The place has significant historic value due to being the point of origin where the students of Dhaka University in 1948 first uttered their refusal to accept Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s declaration that Urdu alone would be the state language in the whole of Pakistan and sparked the Language Movement.
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