Dhaka University Alumni Association

of the University. The first President of the Association was Justice M. Ibrahim who led it for a number of years and bequeathed the ideas of the Grand Assembly, Duty Fund, Branches in other towns and cities and Old Students Home. The association was called Old Boys Association up to 1959 and then it was named Old Students Association the following year. In order to include women students the Association was renamed Alumni Association in 1960. The first General Secretary of the Association was Mr. Mizanur Rahman of the first batch of students of the University. The Association was formed as a social club of former students of the University with the objective of promoting the interests of the University and its students. It is committed to providing assistance to meritorious students of limited means and at times it has done so from its Duty Fund. It also intended to set up a centre for students' activities and programmes but could not do much in the absence of a regular office or premises of its own. Old students home is still an unfulfilled target. In 1965 the Association was hopeful of receiving a piece of land from the University to build an alumni centre. In 1998 Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced the allocation of a plot of land from the old Railway area to the association but bureaucratic procedures have blocked the process of such a transfer till now. At one time there were several branches of the Association in other towns and cities but there are none at the moment. The constitution of the Association was framed in 1950. This was revised in 1974 and again in 1983. The last revision was made in 1999. A twenty?nine member Executive Committee elected for a term of two years is responsible for the activities of the Association. As of 2003 there are 851 life members of the Association. In 1985 the Association honoured 54 former students for their proficiency in various games and sports. In 1996 it honoured twenty?nine senior and renowned teachers of the University. On 6 June 1998 it held the first Alumni Convention which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, an alumni of 1967?69. On 4 February 2000 the Association honoured 25 meritorious students of the University ? the awardees of Raja Kali Narayan Scholarship, instituted in 1921 for the First Class Graduate obtaining the highest total marks in the Honours examination in all subjects. Since 2000 the association is celebrating the International Mother Language Day and Bengali New Year's Day as a special annual event. On 16 July 2002 the Association honoured 23 teachers of the University who went on retirement in 2001 and 2002. This is now an annual function and on ? 2003 this was held for the retirees of 2003. The present President and General Secretary were elected on 4 February 2000 for the years 2000 and 2001 and with some changes of other members the same Executive Committee was reelected for 2002 and 2003.