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Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre

department · verified (verified 2026-05-17)

Profile

Head
Sayeed Mahbub Khan
Role
Rector
Annual budget
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Staff
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Established
1984
Legal basis
Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre Ordinance No. XXVI of 1984 (establishing ordinance, effective 28 April 1984); subsequently governed by the Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre Act, 2018, which repealed the 1984 Ordinance and formalised the Centre's governance structure and operational autonomy

BPATC is implementing its FY2025-26 training calendar at the Savar campus with fifteen core programmes including Foundation Training Courses for approximately 1,000 BCS officer recruits, while absorbing the Public Administration Reform Commission's structural recommendations -- notably the proposal to create an independent training commission and to elevate three regional rural development academies to BPATC-equivalent status; the February 2026 MoU with Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur extends BPATC's research and field attachment outreach into the northern division.

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Provenance & notes

BPATC was established on 28 April 1984 through the integration of four predecessor training bodies: Bangladesh Administrative Staff College, National Institute of Public Administration, Civil Officers Training Academy, and Staff Training Institute; the foundation stone was laid December 1981. The 1984 Ordinance (No. XXVI of 1984) was repealed and replaced by the Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre Act, 2018, confirmed by Banglapedia and multiple secondary sources; the exact act number was not independently verified at bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd due to search retrieval limitations, but the 2018 enactment date is consistent across Banglapedia and Wikipedia. BPATC is located at Savar, approximately 28 km north of Dhaka. Head role is officially 'Rector' (rank of Senior Secretary to the Government); rector is assisted by five Members Directing Staff (MDS) at joint secretary rank, each overseeing one functional division. Current Rector Sayeed Mahbub Khan confirmed across multiple BPATC official Facebook posts (151st ACAD ceremony, 155th ACAD ceremony, 26th Policy Planning and Management Course -- all 2025); exact appointment date not publicly available. head_since is null as no appointment order or gazette date was retrievable from accessible primary sources. staff_count is null: no sanctioned staff figure is publicly disclosed in accessible BPATC documents. annual_budget_bdt is null: BPATC budget is embedded within the Ministry of Public Administration envelope; no standalone BPATC line item was identifiable in the FY2025-26 Finance Division budget documents searched. The FTC is six months (180 days), 26 modules, six thematic areas -- confirmed by BPATC official portal (Foundation Training Course page). The 77th FTC ran 09 March to 04 September 2024; the 78th FTC was active in late 2025 with a field attachment workshop confirmed on BPATC official Facebook. FY2025-26 training plan of fifteen core courses and FTC for 1,000 participants sourced directly from the BPATC Training Calendar 2025-2026 PDF on the official portal. PARC recommendations sourced from two BSS News items (bssnews.net/news/246816 and 244020); PARC report itself is archived at library.bpatc.org.bd. BRUR-BPATC MoU date of February 10, 2026 confirmed by BSS News (bssnews.net/news/359703). Two notable events (78th FTC field attachment workshop, 155th ACAD ceremony) are dated to approximate months based on BPATC Facebook post context; exact calendar dates were not accessible from the search snippets. Date fields for those events use first-of-month placeholders per the BADC precedent in this tracker.

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