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East Bengal Regimental Centre

Infantry training centre of East Bengal Regiment of Bangladesh Army From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

East Bengal Regimental Centre
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East Bengal Regiment Centre (EBRC) is an infantry training centre of East Bengal Regiment of Bangladesh Army located in Chittagong Cantonment.[1][2] Major General Towhidul Ahmed is the current commandant of the centre and flag officer commanding of the regiment.

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After the partition and the independence of Pakistan in 1947, the first training company of the East Bengal Regiment was formed in the 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[3] by the transitional Joint Defense Council of Pakistan and Indian Army under Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck the COAS of both countries .The East Bengal Regiment was raised and commanded by Major Abdul Waheed Chowdhury,[4][5] he was appointed as the Officer Commanding of the newly raised East Bengal Regiment. On 15th February 1948, Senior Tigers were raised to the 1st Battalion of the East Bengal Regiment and formally inaugurated. East Bengal Regiment Centre was created to train the new recruits for East Bengal Regiment which was formed on 15 February 1948.[6] Major Abdul Waheed Chowdhury[7][8] 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.[9][10] The centre has a conference hall.

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