Kulendra Chandra Bhattacharjee

Kulendra Chandra Bhattacharjee (13 April 1913 - 8 June 2002) was an eminent educationist and reformist, whose work in the field of school teaching and reforms in the field of education in Bangladesh and India gave him social recognition.[1] He was hailed as "Kulatilak"( referred from Kulapati which means University Chancellor) in the society, for him being a role model for institution based education systems in the places he generally served and impacted the society as a whole.

He was born in a Bengali brahmin family native to Nayagram Janapad, Panchakhanda, Sylhet in Bangladesh. He did his primary schooling in Nayagram, then moved for pursuing Bachelors in Murari Chand College in the year 1936. He completed Masters in Sanskrit in 1938 and Masters in Pali & Prakrit in 1940 from Dhaka University. He also served as a Bangla teacher for a short while in Murari Chand College.

It was learned that on advice of a school inspector , he started his career as a teacher in Habiganj Government School and eventually moved to Silchar Government School. He served most of his career in Barak Valley of Assam, India. He served as a senior faculty in Normal School Silchar. He played pivotal role in setting up B.T. College, Silchar. Through out his service in Barak Valley, he had persuaded all classes of people in the society specially the deprived and economically poor section of the society in attending formal education. He insisted upon quality of education in the schools, and remained vocal for motivating good standard of education in primary and secondary schooling in the region.

  1. ^ Das, Atin (8th August,2024). http://www.jugashankhaepapaer.com. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)