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Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Memorial Award bestowed on Mahbubul Hoque
3rd APRIL, 2017, ERDF, Guwahati :
Conceptualized and executed by Barak Education Society
Sichar, the organizing committee of the society confers
“Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Memorial Award” to the eminent
personalities who have made mark in the field of education.
And it has been carried out since 2014, every two year this
honor is being delivered. The objective is to pay tribute to
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, independent India’s first education
minister who was as one of the most important national
leaders of the time, prominently leading the causes of
Hindu-Muslim unity as well as espousing secularism and
socialism. In the year 2014, this award was conferred to one
of the leading progressive Islamist thinkers of North East,
erudite educationist and social worker Maulana Taibur Rahman
Barbhuiya. This year the organizing committee has nominated
Sh. Mahbubul Hoque for his immense and unstoppable
contribution in the entire North East region to bring about
a social revolution by educating the poor, the
under-privileged backward class people, specifically
minority Muslim women so that they can come out of their
conventional ghettos and take the centre-stage.
Worthwhile to mention, Mehbubul Hoque, a post-graduate
alumni of Aligarh Muslim University in computer science, had
started his educational entrepreneurial career with one
computer and four students in February 2001. Presently, he
is running two CBSE affiliated schools, one engineering
college, one law school, one B.Ed college, one women’s
college, one career guidance centre, one education
rehabilitation centre & one University of Science &
Technology. The number of students have now notched up to
6500 out of which 20% students hailing from the under
privileged backward class at each institution are availing
free education. Around a total of 700 teaching fraternity
and other human resources are shouldering their
responsibility as partner in progress in all the
institutions to fulfill the Mission ERDF.
It was an ecstatic moment for all ERDF Family. Shri Mahbubul
Hoque, Hon'ble Chancellor USTM and Chairman ERDF, had been
bestowed with the Moulana Abul Kalam Azad Memorial Award
2016 by Barak Education Society at Silchar Gandhi Bhawan
today. Sh. Hoque in an exclusive press meet, had conveyed
his message " I am blessed that I have been chosen for this
award. ERD Foundation works for the benefit of mankind and
we will keep working towards that end. By 2020, we are
planning to come up with a Bengali newspaper and Bengali
news channel, solely focused on education, as I have seen
there are so many issues regarding education which needs to
be stressed on and from the audience perspective, the
channel will get wide viewers as education is a thriving
sector in North East". Amongst other distinguished guests
present on the occasion were Prof. Dilip Chandra Nath the
Hon'ble Vice Chancellor of Assam University Silchar and Prof
Rajat Gupta the Director of NIT Silchar.
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