Barisal Zilla School
Barisal Zilla School (Bengali: বরিশাল জেলা স্কুল), popularly known as BZS, is a public educational institution located in Barisal, Bangladesh. It's a boys school, the first high school in Barisal Division, and the second oldest school in Bangladesh.[2] The school has a long history. It was founded by an Englishman, N. W. Garret, on 23 December 1829 with only 8 students. Now it has more than two thousand students. The school offers grades from class III to class X. It has two shifts, morning and day. The morning shift starts at 7:00 am and the day shift starts at 12:00 pm.
| Barishal Zilla School বরিশাল জিলা স্কুল | |
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| Location | |
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Sadar Road Barisal 8200 | |
| Coordinates | 22.698°N 90.369°E |
| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Motto | পড় তোমার প্রভুর নামে (Read in the name of thy Lord) |
| Established | 23 December 1829 |
| School board | Barisal Education Board |
| Headmaster | Mohammad Nurul Islam[1] |
| Faculty | 54 |
| Gender | Boys |
| Enrollment | 2500+ |
| Classes | III–X |
| Language | Bengali |
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| Yearbook | Sobuj Pata |
| Special project | Connecting classrooms under British Council |
| Website | bzs |
Beside the school playground, Barisal Zilla School owns famous ground called Poreshsagor (পরেশ সাগর). The school celebrated its 175th anniversary on 9–10 December 2005.
Notable alumni
- Sher-e-Bangla A. K. Fazlul Huq, Bengali nationalist & statesman
- Abdul Jabbar Khan, former speaker[3]
- Abdur Rahman Biswas, former (11th) president of Bangladesh
- Altaf Mahmud, music composer[4]
- Sardar Fazlul Karim, scholar, academic, philosopher and essayist
- Buddhadeb Guha, writer
- Golam Mustafa, Ekushey Padak & National Film Award winning actor
- Lieutenant general Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury, former chief of Army staff of Bangladesh
- Tapan Raychaudhuri, historian, Padma Bhushan awardee
- Promode Dasgupta, Communist leader
- Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, Bir Bikrom
- Hafizuddin Ahmed, Bir Bikrom
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See also
References
- https://www.bd-pratidin.com/amp/campus-online/2020/01/22/494785
- "Barisal Zilla School". Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education, Barisal.
- Khan, Muazzam Hussain (2012). "Khan, Justice Abdul Jabbar". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
- Khan, Mobarak Hossain (2012). "Mahmud, Shaheed Altaf". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
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