Monday May 17, 2004

About BGC Trust University Bangladesh:

BGC Trust University Bangladesh is the culmination of a life long dream and philosophy cherished by Engineer Afsar uddin Ahmad, a reputed industrialist and philanthropist to improve the socio-economic condition of the people in general and the disadvantaged rural women and unemployed youth in particular. Towards the translation of these sublime goals into reality, two non-profit and benevolent organizations, namely Begum Gul Chemonara Trust and Ibrahim Iqbal Foundation, which bear the names of his late mother, father and father-in-law respectively, were setup in the early eighties. For the last few decades, these charitable organizations are engaged in implementing development programmes targeted to expand facilities for formal and informal education, vocational training, agriculture and irrigation, creation of employment opportunities, poverty alleviation, health care, family planning, maternity and child care and cash stipend for poor and meritorious students from the primary up to medical help for the upkeep of widows and the orphans and poor peasant girls at the time of their marriage. A primary school, a high school for boys and girls, a vocational training centre on computer, steno-typing, sewing etc, and also a community are being run by these organizations. From the 2004 academic session, technical college named "Ibrahim Iqbal College of Science and Technology" will be set up which would specialize in different technical studies including Pre-BBA, Pre-Computer Science, Textile Technology, Electronics etc.

BGC Trust University Bangladesh has received approval of the Government of Bangladesh.