Chandpur Science and Technology University

Chandpur Science & Technology University (Bengali: চাঁদপুর বিজ্ঞান ও প্রযুক্তি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) is a government financed public university of Bangladesh.

Chandpur Science & Technology University
চাঁদপুর বিজ্ঞান ও প্রযুক্তি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়
TypePublic University
Established2021 (2021)
AffiliationUniversity Grants Commission
ChancellorMohammad Shahabuddin, Honorable President of Bangladesh
Vice-ChancellorMd Nasim Akhtar
Location
Chandpur Temporary Campus Address : Holding No: 0937-02, Kholishaduli, Wapda Gate, Cumilla Road, Chandpur Sadar, Chandpur-360
,
Bangladesh

23.246959°N 90.687337°E / 23.246959; 90.687337
CampusUrban
60 acres (24 ha)
Websitecstu.ac.bd

History

The Cabinet approved the draft bill Chandpur Science and Technology University Act 2019 on 23 December 2019.[1][2] The bill to establish Chandpur University of Science and Technology was passed in the parliament on 9 September 2020. Nasim Akhtar was appointed to a four-year term as the vice chancellor of the university in January 2021.[3] In January 2022, reports surfaced that between December 2019, when the university was approved by the cabinet, and April 2021, when a site was selected and acquisition of land for the university was approved, relatives and associates of Education Minister Dipu Moni had acquired nearly 62.5 acres where the permanent campus is to be built. Allegedly, the acquisitions, in some cases forcible, were recorded at much higher purchase prices than what was actually paid, inflating land prices nearly twenty-fold in an effort to make a 3.59 billion Bangladeshi taka ($42 million as of 2022) profit off of the government's subsequent land purchase. Moni denied any wrong doing on the part of herself or her family.[4][5][6]

List of vice-chancellors
Sequence Name Took over Transfer the responsibility
1 Md. Nasim Akhtar 25 January 2021 present

Course
  • B.Sc (Eng.) : Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)
  • B.Sc (Eng.) : Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
  • B.B.A (Hons) : Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A)

Proposed

  • B.Sc (Eng.) : Civil Engineering (CE)
  • B.Sc (Arch.) : Architecture (ARCH)

References
  1. "Two more public univs approved". Dhaka Tribune. 28 January 2020.
  2. "Cabinet nods draft laws for 2 more specialized universities". The Business Standard. 28 January 2020.
  3. "Govt appoints VCs at Chandpur, Kishoreganj universities". Daily Sun. 27 January 2021.
  4. Jasim, Mir Mohammad (26 January 2022). "Chandpur land price soars unusually centring university". The Business Standard.
  5. Mostafa, Mohammed (27 January 2022). "Web of corruption of minister's men". Prothom Alo.
  6. "Minister's family buy huge land to make money". New Age. 27 January 2022.

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