Feni Government College

Feni Government 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.

Feni Government College
ফেনী সরকারি কলেজ
TypeGovernment University College
Established1922 (1922)
PrincipalMd.Mukter Hossain
Administrative staff
64
Students24,000
Undergraduates15 Departments
Postgraduates15 Departments
Address
College Road
,
Feni
,
Feni District
,
3900
,
Bangladesh

23.0121°N 91.4020°E / 23.0121; 91.4020
CampusRural
AffiliationsNational University, Bangladesh
Websitefgc.gov.bd

History

In 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
Administrative Building of Feni College

Feni College was established in the Feni region. At that time, Tk 20,000 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

References
  1. Taher, Abu (29 January 2007). তিন প্রজন্মের কলেজ [Three generations of college]. Prothom Alo (in Bengali).
  2. Khan, Habibur Rahman (24 October 2013). শতাব্দী প্রাচীন ফেনী সরকারি কলেজ [Century old Feni Government College]. Ittefaq (in Bengali).
  3. ফেনী সরকারী কলেজ. Feni District (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 28 August 2017.
  4. "Deen, Selim Al". Banglapedia.
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