Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University Job Recruitment's 2012 www.sau.edu.bd

http://www.sau.edu.bd/ Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University Job Recruitment's 2012

Sherebangla Agriculture University, Post: Registrar, Deputy director, Asst Director.Section Officer.

Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University

Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh

Tel: +88-02-9144270-8, Fax: 88-02-8155800

E-mail: vcsau@dhaka.net

Web Address: www.sau.edu.bd

www.sau.edu.bd

www.sau.edu.bd

Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University (SAU) is located in the heart of the capital city, Dhaka with excellent public transportation facilities to reach the university. The SAU campus stands on 86.92 acres (35.19 ha) of picturesque land covered by green plantations.

The "Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University Act 2001" was passed in the national Parliament on 09 July 2001. The foundation stone of the University was laid by the then Honorable Prime Minister Shiekh Hasina on 15 July 2001 and inaugurated the university activities through the appointment of the first Vice-Chancellor Professor Md. Shadat Ulla. The Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University had started its formal functions on 11 September 2001 following the issuance of a notification by the Government as per requirement of the "Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University Act 2001".

The Bengal Agricultural Institute (BAI) was established on December 11, 1938 by Sher-e-Bangla A.K. Fazlul Huq, the then Chief Minister of undivided Bengal. At that time the name of this institution was "The Bengal Agricultural Institute" was renamed "East Pakistan Agricultural Institute" in 1947. After the emergence of Bangladesh as an independent country in 1971, the name of the institute was spontaneously changed to Bangladesh Agricultural Institute (BAI). Since its inception in 1938, the BAI had been functioning as a "Faculty of Agriculture" under Dhaka University. Meanwhile with the establishment of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) at Mymensingh in 1961 its academic function was transferred to BAU in 1964 till it’s up gradation to Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University in 2001.

Nearly 5700 graduates plus 600 postgraduates have so far been produced by the Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University. Graduates of this University have been playing pioneer role in the development of agricultural system and agro-based economy of the country. They are involved in various national and international services ranging from civil service to UN assignments including UN peace keeping forces. Presently about 2500 undergraduate and postgraduate students are enrolled in this University and are taught by learned well qualified and experienced faculties.

The Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University was established for the expansion of higher agricultural education and committed to promote research in various fields of agricultural sciences and to offer extension services. A number of research projects have been undertaken by the different departments of the University.

It has made a significant progress towards commencing collaborative research programmes with some foreign universities.