Appeal to the Honorable Prime Minister Sheik Hasina to declare Bajitpur as a district

Our committee  is spearheading the preparation and implementation for the declaration of Bajitpur as a District in Bangladesh. Bajitpur is long overdue to become a district.  Bajitpur District will consist of six upazilas: Bajitpur, Bhairab, Kuliarchar, Khotidi, Nickli, and Austogram.

The Committee is chaired by Professor Rash Bihari Ghosh and includes six elected  upazilas' chairmans and  honorable members of parliament.  

To the people of Bajitpur and the other five upazila partners, Dr. Ghosh has the following message:

"Congratulations to all of you for your unified effort to support our cause  to create Bajitpur District. You have worked so hard on this and I strongly believe this will happen. I wish to invite the Bengali diaspora all over the world to join our struggle  and make this a reality. It is long overdue for more than 75 years." I am sending nomination for the membership of BDIC . KIndly send your acceptance within 30 days.  

Please see  the poster (Austogram will be added within 24 hours) on the right for the list of existing infrastructure which qualifies Bajitpur for consideration as a district.

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, popularly known as Bangabandhu, was a Bangladeshi revolutionary and statesman. Sheik Mujib successfully led the Bangladeshi independence movement and restored the Bengali sovereignty. He is honoured as the 'Father of the Nation' in Bangladesh.

Dr. Ghosh was close to the founding fathers of Bangladesh. After taking active part in the freedom movement as a leader of the Bangladesh Teachers' Association until independence, he attained his PhD in England. He studied the ecology of the River Mersey and Liverpool Bay (the most polluted bay in Europe) and was a lecturer  to M.Sc students at Salford University, Manchester. He then went on to work for Harvey and Stanley Associates, Inc. in San Jose, California. There, he acted in an advisory role  on the ecology and pollution of the San Francisco Bay and designed a monitoring  investigation of the South San Francisco Bay for the regional water quality control Board in Oakland, where he proposed using multiple indicator benthic species and replacing single indication species based on his work on the Liverpool bay and Mersey Estuary in England. Dr. Ghosh then joined Stanford Herring Laboratory as a climate scientist in 1984, investigating canopy chemistry, nutrient cycling, and global warming, funded  by NASA .Later in 1986, he joined the California Department of Health Services as a hazardous materials scientist, mitigating groundwater contamination.  He became project manager there and oversaw 10 superfund toxic waste sites in Central California. In addition, he supervised a team monitoring the aquatic habitats and ecology of the San Francisco Bay. In 1988, Dr. Ghosh was drafted by Citizens for Better Environment to review the 5 volume SF Bay monitoring reports prepared by the kinetic laboratory in Santa Cruz, to which his employer reluctantly agreed. In this project, Dr. Ghosh put his findings from his work in Mersey Estuary and Liverpool Bay to good use in the San Francisco Bay. Dr. Ghosh resolved the long dispute (probono) between SF Regional water quality control Board and South Bay Dischargers to all parties' satisfaction. In 1992 Dr. Ghosh joined Cal EPA as a scientist to mitigate groundwater contamination and became the project manager of about 10 superfund toxic waste sites. In 1998, Dr. Ghosh won a settlement  in an age discrimination case against Cal EPA, as he was repeatedly prevented from attaining positions for which he was qualified.  The decision was upheld by two federal commissions, with the final ruling being made by EOC chairman (and later Supreme Court Justice) Clarence Thomas. Dr. Ghosh left Cal EPA in 2000. Dr. Ghosh, along with Nobel Laureate Dr. Charles Townes, Nobel Laureate Dr. Glenn Seaborg, Nobel Laureate Dr. Douglas Osheroff, Bangladeshi professor Kabir Chowdhury, and leading Indian mathematician Dilip Singha co-founded the International Institute of Bengal and Himalayan Basins (IIBHB) to advocate for access to clean drinking water in developing countries. While living abroad for many years, Dr. Ghosh remains active in Bangladesh through his philanthropy work, implementing several projects in his hometown of Bajitpur such as schools and village water management projects.

The national poverty rate went down from 80% in 1971 to 44.2% in 1991 to 12.9% in 2021. Bangladesh has a literacy rate of 74.7% per cent as of 2019. According to the 2022 Census, Bangladesh has a population of 165.1 million and is the most densely populated country in the world. The majority of Bangladeshis live in rural areas, with 39% of the population living in urban areas as of 2021. The country consists of eight divisions, 64 districts and 495 subdistricts. The government has established special economic zones to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and to create jobs.

Bajitpur has a number of colleges and hospitals. There are 4 Colleges, 1 Private Medical College, 1 Nursing Institute.

Bajitpur is also full of canals and rivers. There are many villages along the rivers. Staple crops in the region include paddy, jute, wheat, potato, peanut, sweet potato, and various vegetables. More than 50% of the population works in agriculture. About 25% of the population works in industrial and service sectors.