Introduction : Bir Shreshtha Noor Mohammad Rifles Public
School & College established in 1977, is one of the most reputed
educational institutions situated in the capital, Dhaka. As an ideal and well
organised institution, since the three decades of its founding, it has been
able to upgrade its glorious status in line with other reputed educational
institutions across the country. This institution is uniquely located in a
magnificent natural environment of Bangladesh Rifles Headquarters with enviably
safe surroundings. The pulpit is marked not only as an institution of rules and
regulations as well as an ideal seat of learning, but also a centre teeming
with salient features like success of the learners in the cultural and sports
arena, morality exercise, patriotic feelings, service to the distressed
humanity, participation in the sphere of nation building activities and, above
all, the institution in addition to normal academic program aims at building
the character of the students and making them ideal citizens of the
country. As a consequence, the institution with a background of 29 years has
already set up a leading image that has turned it into an ideal institution of
confidence, security and dependability to the guardians. Since its inception
Director General and Deputy Director General of Bangladesh Rifles have been
acting as the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Governing Body respectively.
Under their superb guidance, the institution has earned the status of being a
perfectly ideal educational institution.
Education Extension Programme of Bangladesh Rifles : The
Headquarters of twelve sectors of Bangladesh Rifles are situated at Peelkhana.
The authority is profoundly concerned with the education of the offsprings of
BDR personnel. The main task of Bangladesh Rifles is to safeguard the border
areas as well as to curb smuggling. Besides, the members of different ranks of
Bangladesh Rifles are participating in nation building activities that has made
this institution a model of service oriented humanitarian organization. Through
a series of successive steps Bangladesh Rifles adopted education extension
programmes across the country. As a result of this initiative, the institution
opened its door on the 1st of August, 1977 named as Rifles Public School which
later on has been renamed Bir Shreshtha Noor Mohammad Rifles Public School
& College,as a mark of respect to the memory of the valiant freedom fighter
Noor Mohammad Sheikh.
Objectives of founding the educational institution : Illiteracy
is one of the major problems prevailing in Bangladesh. Advancement of the
country has been disrupted due to the lack of proper education system. Keeping
the idea of eradicating illiteracy in view, the government is trying heart and
soul to implement Education Extension program in many possible ways. The
objectives of founding this institution are as follows :
a) To eradicate illiteracy and education extension.
b) To adopt effective measures in the field of building up the offsprings of
the BDR personnel as genuinely educated future citizens.
c) To build up the foundation of a competitive education system with a view to
promoting education in an effective manner and make enrolment of
the students at the same time in this regard.
d) To build up a model of a well–organized and an ideal institution in
accordance with the vision of the educational institutions run by the Armed
forces.
e) To inspire all with the sense that knowledge is power.
Pattern of the institution: The institution has become a
complete edutional institution encompassing both school -
college levels through a series of successive steps since its inception.The
institution opened its door as a Junior school on the 1st August,1977.The
second Director General of Bangladesh Rifles Major General M. Khalilur
Rahman,psc(From 22-2-74 to 31-10-75) took up the scheme in order to set up the
institution on the BDR campus in an area of approximately 6 acres of
land adjacent to BDR gate number five. It is said that there was a plan of
establishing a shaheed minar at this venue. Later on, the then BDR
officer named Major Sakhawat proposed to set up a school here. His
pragmatic plan came true eventually and Major General Quazi Golam Dostagir,
psc, Director General of Bangladesh Rifles (From 1-11-75 to 14-12-77) took the
initiative to establish this institution. The following are the phases of
changes in the structure of this institution:
• The institution got recognitions as a secondary school in 1978.
• The S.S.C candidates from this institution appeared at the SSC Exam for the
first time in 1980.
• In 1983 the institution was upgraded to the college level.
• In 1985 the HSC candidates from this institution appeared at the HSC Exam for
the first time.
• In 2004 English Medium has been introduced at school level in accordance with
NCTB english version Syllabi.
The institution started its journey with only three hundred students who
were the offsprings of BDR personnel. At present there are about three
thousand and a half students in this institution. Among them fourteen percent
students are the offsprings of the BDR personnel. |