Comilla Correspondent :
Education is the backbone of a nation, this was realised by MA Rashid who hailed from Chowdhogram Upazila in the district few years back.
His father Alhaj Monsur Ahmed was also an ideal teacher and following his path Rashid dedicated himself as an educationist though he is an engineer by profession .
He has established a good number of educational institutions in his area and other parts of the country including capital city Dhaka.
He established South Point School in 2002 in Dhaka city and it has earned reputation. Now its three branches are located at Banana, Baridhara and Malibagh Chowdhury Para . Educationists Prof Hamida Ali was founder Principal of this school. Prof Wing Commander (Retd ) Amzad Hossain, Prof Colonel Shams (Retd) and other famous principal served as branch head. The total students of this school is 650 and other staff members are over 200.
Educationist MA Rashid also set up View Point School at Halishahar in Chittagong where the number of students is 350. Besides, he established two madrasas in Comilla – Pipulia Kamil Madrasa in South Kotwali and TIK Memorial College at the same area . About 700 students are studying in these two school .
Nazrul Academy High School and Shispur Rajmia High School were also founded there . over 2000 students are reading in these two schools.
Besides, MA Rashid has another school – Alhaj Monsur Ali English Medium School and King Tongirpar Mahila Madrasa at the village Kodalia.
MA Rashid is not only an educationist, he has established himself as an entrepreneur in the shipping sector and his institution Karnaphuly Ship Builders Ltd has already built 126 ships and over 600 local and foreign ships were repaired in his shipyard .
His farm also built 10 dredgers and 6 dredgers have been supplied to the BIWTA and WDB. In Chittagong , he has also three business farms- Karnaphuly Sea Fishers Ltd, Karnaphuly Cold Storage Ltd and Karnaphuly Complex Ltd.
Local elite said, MA Rashid has done a lot for the society both in education and business . His contributions should be recognised by awarding Ekushey Padak or other awards by the Government.
