| Pabna Cadet College | |
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| Location | |
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Jalalpur, Pabna Sadar Upazila , ,
6600
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| Coordinates | 24°01′23″N 89°17′38″E / 24.0230°N 89.2939°E / 24.0230; 89.2939 |
| Information | |
| Former name | Pabna Residential Model College |
| Motto | Perseverance Is Success (বাংলা: সাধনায় সাফল্য) |
| Established | 7 August 1981; 42 years ago (1981-08-07) |
| School board | Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Rajshahi |
| Principal | Mrs. Sitara Amin (Acting) |
| Adjutant | Major Arman Ibn Rashid |
| Language | English |
| Area | 38 acres (150,000 m2) |
| Color(s) | sky blue |
| Demonym | PCCian |
| First Principal | Syed Salimullah |
| EIIN | 125670 |
| Website | pcc.army.mil.bd |
Pabna Cadet College (Bengali: পাবনা ক্যাডেট কলেজ), is a residential military high school, partly financed by the Bangladesh Army, located at Jalalpur, east of Pabna town, Bangladesh.
Pabna Cadet College was one of six cadet colleges set up in a second wave (1979-1983) after the initial four were established between 1958 and 1964, during the Pakistan era.[1] It was created on 7 August 1981 by converting Pabna Residential Model College.[2] It started with 170 boys of the residential school in four classes.[3]
As of 2022, the cadet college boards 320 boys, between the ages of 12 and 18, in six classes from class VII to XII.[3][4]
The cadet college is located on 30 acres (12 ha) on the north side of the Dhaka-Pabna highway at the village of Jalalpur in Pabna Sadar Upazila, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) east of Pabna.[2]
Within the campus are a three storey academic block, student housing, a dining hall and adjacent canteen, and Bir Sreshtha Nur Muhammad Hospital, named after Bir Sreshtho Lance Naik Nur Mohammad Sheikh.[5][6]
The Bangladesh Army provides some of the funding for cadet colleges, administers them, and runs them on a military model.[7]
The school is headed by a principal, appointed by the Adjutant General's branch of the Bangladesh Army. Other key administrators are a vice principal, an adjutant (an army major), and a medical officer (a captain/major from the Army Medical Corps).[citation needed]
Cadet colleges were designed to be feeder schools for the officer academies of the armed forces, but nowadays they are no longer reserved for students planning to pursue a career in the military.[8]
"The first cadet college was established in 1958. Three more cadet colleges were established between 1958 and 1964 ... Between 1979 and 1983, six more cadet colleges were established".
