East Bengal Regimental Centre

East Bengal Regiment Centre is an infantry training centre of East Bengal Regiment of Bangladesh Army located in Chittagong Cantonment. Major General Ferdous Hasan Salim is the current commandant of the centre and flag officer commanding of the regiment.

History

After the partition and the independence of Pakistan in 1947, the East Bengal Regiment was formed in Pakistan Army from two companies of the Pioneer Corps of the British Indian Army. That training company is called the nucleus of the East Bengal Regi Regament Centre. The East Bengal Regiment was given approval on November 1947 by the transitional Supreme Commanders Headquarters the Joint Defense Council of Pakistan and Indian Army Chief the Supreme Commander Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck. Soon after The East Bengal Regiment was raised and commanded by Major Abdul Waheed Chowdhury, he was appointed as the Officer Commanding of the newly raised East Bengal Regiment. On 15th February 1948 nicknamed Senior Tigers or the 1st Battalion of the East Bengal Regiment were formally inaugurated then by Pakistans Head of State & Government Muhammed Ali Jinnah. East Bengal Regiment Centre was created to train the new recruits for East Bengal Regiment which was formed on 15 February 1948. Major Abdul Waheed Chowdhury was the first to raise and command the 1st East Bengal Regiment and lifted it to the 1st Battalion of the East Bengal Regiment. During the Bangladesh War of Independence, the commander of the centre was the most senior ethnic Bengali officer in the Pakistan Army, Brigadier General Mahmudur Rahman Majumdar. He was imprisoned for the duration of the war. The centre has a conference hall.