Feni Government College (Bengali: ফেনী সরকারি কলেজ, romanized: Feni Shorkari College), is a traditional higher education institute of Feni District of Bangladesh. It is one of the oldest educational institutions in southeastern Bengal. It is located in the heart of Feni City.
ফেনী সরকারি কলেজ | |
 Logo of Feni Govt. College | |
| Type | Government University College |
|---|---|
| Established | 1922 |
| Principal | Md.Mukter Hossain |
Administrative staff | 64 |
| Students | 24,000 |
| Undergraduates | 15 Departments |
| Postgraduates | 15 Departments |
| Address | College Road , , , 3900 , 23°00′44″N 91°24′07″E / 23.0121°N 91.4020°E |
| Campus | Rural |
| Affiliations | National University, Bangladesh |
| Website | fgc |
History
editIn 1918, various initiatives were taken to establish the college. In 1922, Khan Bahadur Bazlul Huq constituted a trustee board and since then the college was originally started. The member of this college birth of the first governing bodies were Khan Bahadur Abdul Aziz, Khan Saheb Maulabhi Bajlul Haque, Maulvi Abdul Khaliq, Maulvi Hasan Ali, Maulvi Abdus Sattar, Sarbaprayata Sriramani Mohan Goswami, Mahendra Kumar Ghosh, Kalicarana Nath, Shandip Roy, Sriguru Das Kor, Srikalijaya Chakraborty, Inayat Hazari, Birendra Bhattacharjee and Ambikacharan Rakkhit Roy Bahadu. The first chairman of this committee was Akramuzzaman Khan who was the sub-divisional officer of Feni and the first secretary of this committee was Maulvi Abdul Khaleq.[1]
Finance and land acquisition
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Feni College was established in the Feni region. At that time, 20,000 Tk was raised locally in the first phase. After the Noakhali district board to 50 Thousand Tk, Calcutta inmate Feni amiragamora overload Candricarana Saha gave the 4 thousand Tk, District overload Kumar Arun Chandra Singh Bahadur, gave two thousand Tk, Sattendra Chandra Ghosh 1 thousand Tk, Lakshmipur Sahesta the landlord Pyarilala Roy Chowdhury passed the five hundred Tk, Chandra Kumar Chowdhury, the zamindar family of Banspara family of Feni gave 1 thousand taka. Old Harjari house of Feni donated some land and money. The college's activities started at the annual gift of Feni High School (Tk. Later, some of the khas lands and private land surrounding the college were included in the donation and purchase sources. The current college size is 9.25 acres (6.5 acres in Feni mound, 3 acres in Faleshwar Mouza). The journey of this college started with a college building, a Hindu and a Muslim hostel on both sides of the pond. Since its inception, the college is free from all financial problems of student support and student wages. On 10 August 1926, the then British India, His Excellency the Governor, Sir Hugh, who stiphenasana Lansdowne CI, SI CS College, was inaugurated two-storey main building.[2][3]
Alumni
edit- Muhammad Shamsul Huq, Bangladeshi academic and former Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Selim Al Deen, playwright[4]
References
edit- ^ Taher, Abu (29 January 2007). তিন প্রজন্মের কলেজ [Three generations of college]. Prothom Alo (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 9 September 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
- ^ Khan, Habibur Rahman (24 October 2013). শতাব্দী প্রাচীন ফেনী সরকারি কলেজ [Century old Feni Government College]. Ittefaq (in Bengali).
- ^ ফেনী সরকারী কলেজ. Feni District (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 28 August 2017.
- ^ "Deen, Selim Al". Banglapedia.