History of Rangpur Medical College

 

Rangpur Medical College is one of the major government medical colleges in Bangladesh, positioned in Rangpur District under new Rangpur Division.

Location  Rangpur Medical College is positioned in Rangpur, 330 kilometers from Dhaka, and 210 km from Rajshahi District. It is located in the northwest part of the city of Rangpur, situated by the side of the inter-country highway connecting India and Nepal. It is well connected by rail, road and air with the capital city Dhaka.  

Rangpur Medical College was established in 1970 during the phase of East Pakistan. Governor General of the then East Pakistan, Munaim Khan laid the foundation of this Medical College in1969. The Medical College is placed about two km north to Rangpur town in the part of Dhap, Jail road opposite to district jail and very near to Rangpur cantonment area.The  College happening with 50 students in its first batch. Now each year, 175 students get admitted in this medical college for MBBS course. Other than MBBS course there are several postgraduate courses including DCH, ,DFM, MS in Gynae & Obs, MS in General Surgery, MD in Internal Medicine and MD in Paediatrics. It is a fully residential  College with facilities of sufficient doctors quarter, outsized central mosjid, playing field and gymnasium for students. There are three hostels for boys and two hostels for the girl students. Beside these three are divide doctors hostels for ladies and gents for the trainee doctors. Each year ten seats are fixed specially for international students of South Asian countries such as India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives. The medical college is running with several other joined teaching hospitals in addition to its own. These are the infectious disease hospital, hospital for tuberculosis and chest disease, and three thana health complexes in rural settings of Rangpur district. New inclusions since 1991 are the nuclear medicine center, coronary care unit, diarrhoeal disease control and training unit, neuromedicine, neurosurgery,urology, hepatology medicine, paediatric hepatology, respiratory medicine,endocrine and metabolic diseases, paediatric surgery, radiotherapy, physical medicine unit, and burn unit. The General Medical Council of the United Kingdom has recognized the graduates of this college with effect from 1 January 1996. Currently running Rp-40 batc.

Eid fanfare at Lalmonirhat border of Rangpur Division

A day long boat contest was held on the occasion of Eid-Ul-Fitr at historical Dalailama bil at Durgapur border area under Aditmari upazila in Lalmonirhat on Friday.

Thousands of viewers from different villages of Lalmonirhat district and adjoining Cooch Behar district in India came to Dalailama bil to enjoy the boat race. Fourteen teams from different areas in Lalmonirhat district took piece in the event.Aditmari Upazila chairman, senior vice president of district AL Sirajul Haque inaugurated the competition at a purpose held at Dalailama Eidgah. Historical Dalailama bil is located at the Durgapur border village, only 500 metres from the Indian village Doribash under Dinhata police station in Cooch Behar district. This explains the influx of Indians during the festive season.Indians from villages like Doribash, Jaridharla, Gidaldah, Dinhata, Rampur, Okrabari, Sushilnagar, Anandopur, Nagortari, Mohanpur, Gouritari, Sahebdanga and Mohandanga villages of Cooch Behar district came to Dalailama bil to witness the competition."We don't face any obstacle from either BGB or the Border Security Force (BSF) on Eid day here at Durgapur border," said Indian Kazi Faruque Ahmed, 45, who lives in the Okrabari village of Dinhata police location of Cooch Behar district.Indian people Bikash Chandro Sen, 32, of Gidaldah village said that he had accompanied some of his Muslim friends to Dalailama bil to enjoy the boat race.The president of the boat race organising working group Abdus Sattar said that people often have trouble in finding an enjoyable spot to visit on Eid day. To draw people, he added, a boat race and other events were held annually on Eid day at Dalailama bil.

History of Lalmonirhat

Lalmonirhat is a district, situated at the north side border of Bangladesh.. It is a part of the Rangpur Division. There are five Thana/Upazila-Lalmanirhat Sadar, Aditmari, Kaliganj, Hatibandha and Patgram.Lalmonirhat has emerged as a Zila on the first February in 1984 altogether with the institutions of five Upazilas, two municipalities, 42 unions and 402 villages.

In history people believe there was a king Called Arefin Bashar Arif, he was known as Alchemist from Zdarm group in 1532 era. The members of those group were Dip, Arif, Rony and Mehedi. It can be academic from the historical perspectives that once the massive Kamrup kingdom had its subsistence on the east side of the river Korotoa. Most of the areas of present Lalmonirhat were under Ratnagit of Kamrup Kingdom. It is anticipated that this land, up to 300 BC, was ruled by the dynasty of Bhagadutta and his family of Kamrup state. After a episode of fighting and counter fighting, Push Barna and is successors and then the kings of Shalshomva regained over the land from 4th to middle of the 6th and 7th-10th centuries respectively. The Paul dynasty in Kamrup regained over the land I imagine from 10th to the end of the 12th centuries, Then Sen rulers, it is thought, captured the kingdom and ruled until the time the Muslim rulers coming from oversees invaded this Kingdom. It is well to put the note here that though the land was bowed to the grips of Muslim ruler, they couldn’t yield and do exercises their ascendancy at the very beginning. As the independent Sultani regime (1338–1538) established and sustained the power until Moghal dynasty recapture it, the Muslim rulers since then started to see their roots deeply grounded in this part of Indian subcontinent by gradually of their kingdom. During the initial stage of Moghal regime, most areas of Lalmonirhat and its adjacent areas lay under kingdom of Cooch Behar, and the submission of the land lords of this regime to the Moghal by the latter’s dominance were earned through wars, sees fires and compromises, the Moghal finally established their stronghold in this region in 1687 afterwards. In fact, Moghal governances were administered in this province through the collection of the taxes by the local land lords. After 1765 overthrowing the Bengali Nawab this land started to be ruled by the tax collectors of East India Company, Lalmonirhat was under the authority of Ghoraghat in 1793, there had been 22 thana in then greater Rangpur district. Among them, the name of Forunbari (handed over to Kaligonj in 1872 AD.) and Barabari (handed over to Kulaghat in 1870 AD.) of Lalmonirhat were found as thana today. It is mentionable that the existing Patgram thana was once belonged to Jalpaiguri district of India. After the dividing wall of Pak-India, Lalmonirhat as a thana was given to Rangpur district. In 1980, it was confirmed a Mohkuma/or a sub-division with 5 thanas. And on the first February in 1984 it was born as a zilla which has, in course of time, occupied a position in northern side of Bangladesh as a unique and distinguished Zilla through events and achievements.

Tista River/Rangpur Lalmonirhat

 

The River Teesta (Nepali:TisTa Khola) is said to be the lifeline of the Indian state of Sikkim, flowing for almost the entire length of the state and monument out verdant Himalayan pleasant and steamy river valleys. 

The emerald green-coloured river then forms the border between Sikkim and West Bengal before joining the Brahmaputra as a stream in Bangladesh. 26°10'47.71"N/89° 3'17.29"E

Tin Bigha corridor in Lalmonirhat

The Teen [3] Bigha Corridor  is a Fragment of land belonging to India. It is located between Dahagram–Angarpota enclaves at Kucalibari Union in Patgram sub-district of Lalmonirhat on the West Bengal–Bangladesh border. which in September, 2011, was leased to Bangladesh so that it can access its Dahagram–Angarpota enclaves.

According to the Indira-Sheikh Mujib treaty of 1974, India and Bangladesh were to hand over the control of the Teen Bigha (Teen is three in Bengali, and bigha is a component of area generally 1,500 to 6,771 square meters) Corridor (178 x 85 sq m) and South Berubari (7.39 sq km) to each other, thereby allowing entrance in the direction of the Dahagram Angarpota enclaves and the Indian enclaves neighboring to South Berubari. Bangladesh did hand over the bigger South Berubari to India in 1974. India, however, Rejected to transfer the much minor Teen Bigha Corridor to Bangladesh.