History Of BPSC

Introduction: 

BEPZA Public School and College started its journey on 15 December, 1999. This institution started up with the favor of the sixth Executive Chairman of Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority during his tenure (from 29-6-1998 to 26-12-2001). At first the activities of the school was run with 9 teachers and staffs whose first principal was Prof. Gopal Chandra Barua in the garage of DEPZ or under umbrella when it rained. Afterwards, the authority of Bangladesh Export Processing Zone allotted 2.75 acres of land for the school from their acquired 296 acres of land on 29 March 2000 in the 8oth meeting of the governing board. Then on 12 November in 2001, 3.08 acres of land was allotted for 50 years in the extended area of Dhaka EPZ. Again in 2010, 1.05 acres of land including a 4 storied building has been provided to the institution. The present school was an L-shaped two storied building which was made three storied afterwards. To facilitate the students, a new college building with 8 storied foundation capacity and with all modern facilities has been constructed in 2019 of which 3 floors or 4 storeys are in vogue.

Corporate Social Responsibilities of BEPZA: 

The authority is profoundly concerned with the education of the offspring of parents serving at BEPZA and the enterprises of Dhaka EPZ. Under the Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR), the authorities took the initiative of founding educational institutions in different zones of BEPZA. Among the institutions, the pioneer and the leading institution is certainly BEPZA Public School and College, Dhaka which opened its door on 15 December, 1999.

Objectives of founding the educational institution: 

• To motivate the students in achieving higher educational goals and make them good citizens of the country.

• To impart education at all levels in a suitable environment according to the syllabus of the Board of Education as per National Curriculum.
• To establish unique communication among Teachers, Students and Parents.
• To help the students in exposing physical and mental qualities matching with important lessons.
• To ensure that students can be ideal citizens and can contribute effectively towards leading the nation in future.
• To broaden the mental faculty of students towards developing self-confidence.
• To equip each student as an all-rounder to keep pace with the advanced modern world.
• To get the weak students back to the mainstream.

Pattern of the institution: 

This institution is run according to the rules and regulations of the Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, under the ministry of education. It is run by its own governing body the head of which is the Executive Chairman of Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority. The principal acts as the member secretary. At first this institution got its primary approval as junior school for three years by office order No-1626/5 from the board of secondary and higher secondary education Dhaka zone on 29 June, 2000. After that on 23 February, 2003, it again got temporary approval of Cl-VI to Cl-VIII for five years by office order No-292/6, as a result of which this institution was given permission to open class nine by office order No-8251 on 12 March, 2003. Subsequently on 29-06-2006, the institution got its first acknowledgement as college by letter No-1784. The institution started its journey with only two hundred and seventy five students on 15 December, 1999. At the very outset, the teachers had to toil hard to convince the students, reaching their homes, to get them admitted into the newly established school.

Although the institution started off with only 275 students, at present the number has increased over three thousand, 3117 to be precise. Twenty five percent of students, among them, are the offspring of parents serving at BEPZA and the enterprises of Dhaka EPZ.