Brahmaputra River one of the largest rivers in the world, with its basin covering areas in Tibet China, India and Bangladesh It originates in the Chemayung-Dung glacier, approximately at some 145 km from Parkha, an important trade centre between lakeManassarowar and Mount Kailas. It has a long course through the dry and flat region of southern Tibet before it breaks through the himalayas near the NamchaBarwa peak at about 7,755m. Its chief tributaries in India are the Amochu, Raidak, Sankosh, Mans, Bhareli, Dibang and Luhit.
During the later part of British India, it was felt that the people of the northeastern region needed the services of qualified medical personnel. The then Campbell Medical School of Calcutta and Mitford Medical School of Dhaka were unable to cater the needs of the growing population. With this background the third medical school for the region, was established in 1924 in Mymensingh, by the Earl of lytton, the then governor of Bengal. The Lytton Medical School was to run a four-year course of Licentiate of Medical Faculty (LMF). This course of LMF continued till 1962, when it was upgraded to a five-year undergraduate medical course under Dhaka University and the school was renamed as Mymensingh Medical College.This is the 2nd established Hospital in Bangladesh.
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- 1.Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU):Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) the premier seat of higher agricultural education and research in the country. Its activities cover all the domains of agricultural sciences having direct bearing on terrestrial and aquatic productivity. The university was established in 1961 on the basis of the recommendations made by the Commission on National Education and the Food and Agriculture Commission in 1959 under the East Pakistan Agricultural University Ordinance, 1961. The Prime Minister of the Peoples' Republic of Bangladesh is the Chancellor of the university and the Vice-chancellor is the executive head.
- 2.Anandamohan College:Anandamohan College one of the largest colleges in Bangladesh, was established at Mymensingh in 1901. Ananda Mohan bose established the Mymensingh Institution in 1883 in his own family residence at Rambabu Road of Mymensingh town. The institution was later renamed City Collegiate School. On 18 July 1901, it introduced a college branch as an affiliate of the Calcutta City College established by the BrahmoSamaj.
- 3.Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin Museum:ShilpacharyaZainul Abedin Museum a centre for collection and preservation of Zainul Abedin's art As per government order for a nation-wide preservation of the artist's paintings and works, the museum was established in 1975. The site selected was at the north end of Mymensingh, the hometown of ShilpacharyaZainul Abedin, by the nature surrounded shadowy banks of the old Brahmaputra. The concept of an archive was first conceptualized by the Shilpacharya who, in mid nineteen fifties, spearheaded the movement of collecting neglected pieces of invaluable works of art scattered all over rural Bangladesh.
- 4.Jatiya KabiKaziNazrul Islam University:JatiyaKabiKaziNazrul Islam University is a government financed public university of Bangladesh. It is also known as JKKNIU. It is located at Nama para Battala, 1.5 kilometers from TrishalUpazila, some 22 kilometers from Mymensingh district and 100 kilometers from Dhaka.
- 5.Muktagachha Zamindars:The Muktagachhazamindars of Mymensingh were well known in this sub-continent for the various work they did and luxurious lives. People of the district remember them with respect for their contributions, especially to the education sector. Muktagachha is now a merely an upazilasadar, though at one stage 16 of the zamindar inheritors controlled their administration from this place. History says that Sree Krishna Acharya Chowdhury of Bogra was the first to establish Zamindari here.