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| Formation | 1948 |
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| Headquarters | Chittagong Cantonment,Bangladesh |
Region served | Bangladesh |
Official language | Bengali |
Commandant | Major General Ferdous Hasan Salim |
Parent organization | ARTDOC |
East Bengal Regiment Centre (EBRC) is an infantry training centre ofEast Bengal Regiment ofBangladesh Army located inChittagong Cantonment.[1][2] Major General Ferdous Hasan Salim is the current commandant of the centre and flag officer commanding of the regiment.
After thepartition and theindependence of Pakistan in 1947, theEast Bengal Regiment was formed inPakistan Army from two companies of the Pioneer Corps of theBritish Indian Army. That training company is called the nucleus of the East Bengal Regi Regament Centre. TheEast Bengal Regiment was given approval on November 1947[3] by the transitionalSupreme Commanders Headquarters the Joint Defense Council of Pakistan and Indian Army Chief the Supreme CommanderField MarshalClaude Auchinleck . Soon afterThe East Bengal Regiment was raised and commanded by MajorAbdul Waheed Chowdhury,[4][5] he was appointed as theOfficer Commanding of the newly raised East Bengal Regiment. On 15th February 1948 nicknamedSenior 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.[6] MajorAbdul Waheed Chowdhury[7][8] 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 theBangladesh War of Independence, the commander of the centre was the most senior ethnic Bengali officer in the Pakistan Army, Brigadier GeneralMahmudur Rahman Majumdar. He was imprisoned for the duration of the war.[9][10] The centre has a conference hall.
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