Cadet Colleges in Bangladesh

In our very first post we discussed and shared the famous and well known “Cadet Colleges in Pakistan". In-case we missed your college please do comment the name of your college in the comments section, we will try our very best to be up to date. Now in this article of our blog we will discuss the Cadet Colleges of Bangladesh.

Cadet Colleges were first introduced in Germany during the era of Bismarck. Napoleon Bonaparte then introduced cadet colleges in France. Military and Royal aristocrats would send their offspring’s or wards to those cadet colleges for military education and a career in the Royal Army. After the partition in 1947, the new state of Pakistan, consisting of East and West Pakistan was headed by Field Marshal Ayub Khan.

The first cadet college of Pakistan was built in West Pakistan near Hasan Abdal town of Attock district, in Punjab province in the year 1954. Faujdarhat Cadet College in Chittagong District was founded in 1958. Faujdarhat was the second cadet college in Pakistan and one of the biggest in East Pakistan and still the biggest in Bangladesh at 185 acres. This isone of the Pioneer Cadet Colleges in Bangladesh.

Until the separation of East-Pakistan, and the creation of Bangladesh there were 4 cadet colleges there. All of them were mostly inaugurated by Field Marshall Ayub Khan. Today these cadet colleges still follow the system of Pakistan Army’s selection and requirements. ISSB (Inter Services Selection Board) Bangladesh selects cadets after rigorous and difficult selection methods.

Here is the list of all Cadet Colleges in Bangladesh with their creation year,

No.	Name	Location	Area (acre)	Established
01	Faujdarhat Cadet College	Chittagong, East Pakistan	185	1958
02	Jhenaidah Cadet College	Jhenaidah, East Pakistan	110	1963
03	Mirzapur Cadet College	Mirzapur, Tangail, East Pakistan	95	1965
04	Rajshahi Cadet College	Sardah, Rajshahi, East Pakistan	110	1965
05	Sylhet Cadet College	Sylhet, Bangladesh	52.37	1978
06	Rangpur Cadet College	Alamnagar, Rangpur, Bangladesh	37	1979
07	Barisal Cadet College	Rahmatpur, Barisal, Bangladesh	50	1981
08	Pabna Cadet College	Pabna, Bangadesh	38	1982
09	Mymensingh Girls Cadet College	Mymensingh, Bangladesh	23	1983
10	Comilla Cadet College	Kotbari, Comilla, Bangladesh	57	1983
11	Joypurhat Girls Cadet College	Joypurhat, Bangladesh	57	2006
12	Feni Girls Cadet College	Feni, Bangladesh	49.5	2006

 
These are the all cadet colleges functioning in Bangladesh since our combined independence as Pakistan from 1947. Our next post will again be centered around cadets, cadet colleges, and life in cadet colleges. Do share our posts, comment and like our face page at facebook.com/cadetchronicles