Kamrunnessa Government Girls High School is a public secondary school for girls in

Tikatuli Tikatuli is a residential/commercial neighborhood of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. History The parents of the Indian mystic Anandamayi Ma used to live in Tikatuli. Rapid Action Battalion-3 has built their office was what used to be Tikatuli pa ...

Dhaka Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city ...

History

Kamrunnessa Government Girls High School was originally established as a branch of Eden College and it was separated from the college in 1924 and renamed as Kamrunnessa High School. It was named by Nawabzadi

Akhtar Banu Akhtar ( fa, links=no, ) means "star" in Persian. It is a unisex name. It is also a common surname. A variant spelling is Akhter. Notable people with the given name or surname include: Given name Akhtar * Akhtar Aly Kureshy Pakistani lawyer ...

after her mother, Kamrunnessa. Kamrunnessa was married to Nawab Sir

Khwaja Ahsanullah Nawab Bahadur Sir Khwaja Ahsanullah KCIE (22 August 1846 – 16 December 1901) was the third Nawab of Dhaka. He also authored books in Persian and Urdu under the pen name of Shaheen. Ahsanullah is recognised for his philanthropic works in Ben ...

Bahadur, the Nawab of Dhaka. It was supported by Akhtar Banu and her sisters. Sir

Khwaja Nazimuddin Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin ( bn, খাজা নাজিমুদ্দীন; ur, ; 19 July 1894 – 22 October 1964) was a Pakistani politician and one of the leading founding fathers of Pakistan. He is noted as being the first Bengali to ha ...

, the chief Minister of Bengal, nationalised the school after the Partition of Bengal in 1947. The school became a government school and was moved to 25 Abhoy Das lane, Tikatuli.

Notable alumni

Kazi Khaleda Khatun Kazi Khaleda Khatun was one of the school students who took part in the Bengali Language Movement at a young age. Birth On 7 August 1939, Khaleda Khatun was born in the Kazi family of Pirojpur, Barishal, Bangladesh. Her father was Kazi Majhar U ...

, activist *

Bibi Russell Bibi Russell is a Bangladeshi fashion designer and former international model. Career Russell was born in 1950 in Chittagong, Bangladesh to Mokhlessur Rahman and Shamsun Nahar. She grew up in Dhaka studying in Kamrunnessa Govt Girls High School ...

, fashion designer and former international model

References

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