page_title: Feni Girls' Cadet College
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Feni Girls' Cadet College / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Only surviving building from World War II Airfield, used as site office by MES (Military Engineer Services). Feni Girls Cadet College, Feni District, Bangladesh
context_page_description: Feni Girls' Cadet College is a military high school for girls, located in Feni Sadar Upazila, Bangladesh. Cadet colleges are autonomous residential institutions that impart an all round education to the young learners at the secondary and higher secondary level. The colleges are under the auspices of the Ministry of Defence and function under the direct supervision of the Adjutant General of the Bangladesh Army.
context_section_description: Mymensingh Girls' Cadet College was established in 1984 as the first Girls' Cadet College in Bangladesh alongside the nine existing cadet colleges for boys.  Thereafter, the desire to increase the number of places for girls' to promote more equal access to such an education combined with the introduction of commissioning female officers into the Defense Services in 2002 added more impetus to the issue. Finally, the government decided to establish two girls' cadet colleges at Feni and Joypurhat.A portion of an abandoned British Airfield (constructed in 1942 during World War II) was chosen as the site for Feni Girls' Cadet College. The MES (Military Engineer Services) started work on the project on 29 June 2004. The student (called cadet) selection procedure started in December 2005 and a nationwide competitive examination held.
  Initially, only a skeleton staff of military and civilian backgrounds were transferred from other cadet colleges while the recruitment process was undertaken. The college received the first batch of newly recruited employees in April 2006. The college opened for teaching on 15 April 2006 with 100 students (cadets), fifty of each from classes VIII and VII. On 7 June 2006 the then Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia formally opened the college. Ministers, Chief of three Services, Senior Military and Civil Officers, Elites, college staff and Cadets were present. The college started running with basic buildings and services as work continued on enlarging the campus.
caption: Only surviving building from World War II Airfield, used as site office by MES (Military Engineer Services)
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