Comilla Zilla School
| Comilla Zilla school. কুমিল্লা জিলা স্কুল. | |
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Kandirpar, Comilla, Bangladesh | |
| Coordinates | 23°27′46″N 91°10′54″E / 23.462895°N 91.181739°ECoordinates: 23°27′46″N 91°10′54″E / 23.462895°N 91.181739°E |
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| Established | 1837 |
| School district | Comilla |
| Headmaster | Rasheda Akter (2011- present) |
| Enrollment | 2000+ |
| Colour(s) | White |
| Sports | Cricket, football, handball, badminton |
| Website |
czs |
Comilla Zilla School (Bengali: কুমিল্লা জিলা স্কুল) is a boys' school in Comilla, a city in Bangladesh. It is one of the oldest schools in the country. It was the only school in Comilla for four decades before the establishment of Nawab Faizunnesa Government Girls' High School in 1873.
History
The school, in the center of Comilla, was established in 1837 by an Englishman named Henry George Leicester. It was set up by the government of British India for teaching English literature and science and named Comilla Zilla School. In the 1850s, the school academic building was expanded and more facilities were created to make it a full-fledged high school.
Today
Initially the school conducted only one shift. From 1991 two shifts were introduced: morning and day. Presently all the classes from 5 to 10 are running. There are six sections in each of the classes: ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, and ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ for class six to eight where ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ are in morning shift and day shift. There are two sections in nine and ten; they are 'A' and 'B'.
There are 60 students in each of the sections. For class nine and ten students are distributed into four sections following the same structure with a larger number of students in a class. Almost 2,000 students are studying in the school with 53 teachers.
Notable alumni
- A.B.M. Khairul Haque, former Chief Justice of Bangladesh.[1]
- Dhirendranath Datta, Bengali lawyer who was active in the politics of undivided Bengal in pre-partition India and later in East Pakistan (1947–1971)
- General Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan, former Chief of Army Staff of Bangladesh
- Himangshu Dutta, a music composer in the Bengali music industry
- Kamrul Ahsan, High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Canada, also served as Bangladesh High Commissioner to Singapore where he was the Dean of the Diplomatic and Consular Corps
- Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, served as the President of Bangladesh
- Muhammad Anwar Hossain, 2nd Lt. (1-E Bengal), first Shaheed defense officer during Bangladesh Liberation War, later awarded as Bir Uttom by Bangladesh Government[2]
- Nayeemul Islam Khan, a leading Bengali-language newspaper editor
- Sachin Dev Burman, musician
- Shib Narayan Das, a leading student leader of late 1960s who designed the first national flag of Bangladesh[2]