Proposal to rename Sylhet medical university after Fazilatunnesa Mujib approved
The proposal to change the name of the newly established Sylhet Medical University to 'Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib Medical University', after the wife of Bangladesh’s founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has been approved.
Based on the application on 28 November, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Trust approved it on Thursday, reports UNB.
Earlier, Habibur Rahman Habib, MP for Sylhet-3 constituency, proposed to change the name of Sylhet medical university to Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib in the parliament on 16 September.
On 25 October, SMU vice-chancellor Morshed Ahmed Chowdhury also placed a proposal to rename the university in its third syndicate meeting and the syndicate members of the medical university gave their consent to the proposal.
SMU VC Morshed Ahmed Chowdhury thanked the trust's president Sheikh Hasina, also incumbent prime minister, for giving this approval.
He also extended his gratitude to foreign minister Abdul Momen and Sylhet-3 constituency MP Habibur Rahman Habib.