National Professor

National Professor is a prestigious teaching award given by the Government of Bangladesh for outstanding contribution on the field of education. It is awarded by the president of Bangladesh according to Bangladesh National Professor Act 1981. The awarded persons receive various facilities from the government.^[1]

• They will receive a fixed amount of salary through the University Grants Comission.
• They will be able to do any educational/research work in with any research organisation/institute in their choice.
• They will receive all the facilities from the respected organisations/institutes.
• They will be able to join any foreign university as visiting professor.
• They will not be able to take any salary from any other organisations/institutes except the government.
• They will not be treated as government officers.

List of National Professors

• before 1989
  • Muhammad Ibrahim^[2]
• 1993
  • Dewan Mohammad Azraf
• 1994
  • M Innas Ali^[3]
• 1998
  • Kabir Chowdhury^[4]
• 2006
  • Abdul Malik^[5]
  • Prof AKM Nurul Islam of the Botany Department of Dhaka University^[5]
  • former vice-chancellor of Bangladesh Agriculture University Prof AKM Aminul Haque^[5]
  • former professor of the Political Science Department of Dhaka University Talukder Moniruzzaman^[5]
• 2011
  • Sardar Fazlul Karim^[6]
  • A.F. Salahuddin Ahmed^[6]
  • former Dhaka University sociology department professor Rangalal Sen^[6]
  • former Jahangirnagar University Bangla department professor Mustafa Nurul Islam^[6]
  • former Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University professor Shahla Khatun^[6]

dates not known

• M. R. Khan
• Abdur Razzak

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