Gol-e-Afroze Government College also called Gule Afroze Degree College is the only public residential, coeducational, institute of higher learning of Singra

Singra

Singra is a municipality located in the province of Teruel, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census , the municipality has a population of 94 inhabitants....

 in Natore, Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

. It is one of the five government colleges in the Natore District, and the third oldest, established before the War of 1971

Bangladesh Liberation War

The Bangladesh Liberation War was an armed conflict pitting East Pakistan and India against West Pakistan. The war resulted in the secession of East Pakistan, which became the independent nation of Bangladesh....

 and the Independence of the country. Although it was a private college of the aristocratic Singranatore family, in 1986, the then President

President of Bangladesh

Since 1991, the President of Bangladesh is the head of state, a largely ceremonial post elected by the parliament. Since 1996, the President's role becomes more important after the term of the government has finished, when his executive authority is enhanced as laid down in the constitution of the...

 and former military ruler

Military dictatorship

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, HM Ershad announced that it would be made into a public college. Since then it is under the Ministry of Education of the Government of Bangladesh.

History

It is named after Begum Gul-e-Afroze, a member of the Singranatore family of Rajshahi

Rajshahi

The city of Rajshahi is the divisional headquarters of Rajshahi division as well as the administrative district that bears its name and is one of the six metropolitan cities of Bangladesh. Often referred to as Silk City and Education City, Rajshahi is located in the north-west of the country and...

, the daughter of Begum GulBadan and Shamezuddin Ahmed. She was a granddaughter of Mirza Jalaluddin

Jalaluddin Mirza

Jalaluddin Mirza was a prince of the Mughal Royal Family, Gurkhan-e-Mirza.Most of his life was spent hiding from the British. He took refuge under the Zamindari Dighapatia family in Natore, Rajshahi. He had four sons and two daughters. His son Mirza Zafar eventually came to be an official in the...

, the last zamindar

Zamindar

A Zamindar or zemindar , was an aristocrat, typically hereditary, who held enormous tracts of land and ruled over and taxed the bhikaaris who lived on batavaslam. Over time, they took princely and royal titles such as Maharaja , Raja , Nawab , and Mirza , Chowdhury , among others...

 of Natore and the wife of MM Rahmatullah

MM Rahmatullah

Mian Muhammad Rahmatullah, was a former Chief Engineer of the Public Works Department and later Head of the Capital Development Authority of the Government of Bangladesh...

.

External links

• Official Website Bangladesh Bureau of Educational Information and Statistics
• Official Website Ministry of Education