Names of 68 government colleges changed

The interim government has changed the names of 68 government colleges previously named after deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and members of her family.

The education ministry’s Secondary and Higher Education Division announced the decision in a notification on Wednesday.

The division said the name changes were made in accordance with the directive issued by the Cabinet’s implementation monitoring branch on Feb 9.

On Aug 5 last year, Hasina resigned from her premiership and fled to India in the face of a student-led mass uprising.

Since the interim government took office on Aug 8, it has renamed institutions that were named after Hasina, her father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, members of their family, and Awami League leaders.

On Apr 24, the names of 21 educational institutions, including six schools, three school and college complexes, and two colleges were altered. Before that, the administration removed the names of Bangabandhu, Hasina and Awami League leaders from 63 state-run primary schools, 13 universities, six medical colleges and 14 hospitals.