Pabna Cadet College
Military high school in Bangladesh
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Pabna Cadet College (Bengali: পাবনা ক্যাডেট কলেজ), is a residential military high school, partly financed by the Bangladesh Army, located at Jalalpur, east of Pabna town, Bangladesh.
| Pabna Cadet College | |
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পাবনা ক্যাডেট কলেজ | |
Logo of Pabna Cadet College | |
| Location | |
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Jalalpur, Pabna Sadar Upazila Bangladesh | |
| 24.0230°N 89.2939°E | |
| Information | |
| Former name | Pabna Residential Model College |
| Motto | Perseverance is Success |
| Established | 7 August 1981 |
School board | Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Rajshahi |
Principal | Colonel Md Mehdi Hasan PSC |
| Grades | 7–12 |
| Gender | Boys |
| Age range | 12–18 |
| Enrollment | 320 |
| Area | 38 acres (150,000 m2) |
| First principal | Syed Salimullah |
| EIIN | 125670 |
| Website | pcc |
History
Pabna Cadet College was one of six cadet colleges set up in a second wave (1979–1983) after the initial four were established between 1958 and 1964, during the Pakistan era.[1] It was created on 7 August 1981 by converting Pabna Residential Model College.[2] It started with 170 boys of the residential school in four classes.[3]
As of 2022, the cadet college boards 320 boys, between the ages of 12 and 18, in six classes from class VII to XII.[3][4]
Cadet colleges were designed to be feeder schools for the officer academies of the armed forces, but nowadays, they are no longer reserved for students planning to pursue a career in the military.[5]
Campus
The cadet college is located on 30 acres (12 ha) on the north side of the Dhaka-Pabna highway at the village of Jalalpur in Pabna Sadar Upazila, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) east of Pabna.[2]
Within the campus are a three-storey academic block, student housing, a dining hall and adjacent canteen, and Bir Sreshtha Nur Muhammad Hospital, named after Bir Sreshtho Lance Naik Nur Mohammad Sheikh.[6][7]
Administration
The Bangladesh Army provides some of the funding for cadet colleges, administers them, and runs them on a military model.[8][9]