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Directorate of Technical Education

department · verified (verified 2026-05-17)

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Head
Abul Khayer Md. Akkas Ali
Role
Director General
Annual budget
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Staff
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Established
1960
Legal basis
Established by executive order in 1960 under the Government of Pakistan; continued under the Government of Bangladesh post-independence; operates under the Technical and Madrasah Education Division under the Ministry of Education.

DTE is in an active reform phase under Director General Abul Khayer Md. Akkas Ali: managing 218 government technical institutions (161 TSCs, 51 polytechnic institutes, 4 engineering colleges, 1 TTTC), running BTEB examination result cycles, preparing the 2026-27 polytechnic admission circular (expected June 2026 via btebadmission.gov.bd), and completing the World Bank-funded ASSET project (BDT 4,299.99 crore, 2021-2026). Curriculum reform under active ministerial consideration: feasibility of reducing four-year diploma to three years.

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Provenance & notes

Website: official portal is techedu.gov.bd (also accessible as dte.gov.bd which redirects; dte.gov.bd TLS certificate has altname mismatch and fails HTTPS fetch). Current DG is Abul Khayer Md. Akkas Ali, confirmed by name in an April 13, 2026 event report (Daily Asian Age) and on the techedu.gov.bd homepage; Wikipedia listed Md. Sanowar Hossain, which appears to be a prior incumbent. head_since is not publicly available in any source consulted. staff_count and DTE-specific annual_budget_bdt are not disaggregated in public budget documents; annual_budget_bdt reflects the parent division total. DTE manages 218 government institutions: 161 technical schools/colleges (techedu.gov.bd homepage figure), 51 polytechnic institutes (techedu.gov.bd), 4 engineering colleges, 1 Technical Teachers Training College. Note: Wikipedia cites 64 TSCs and 49 polytechnics, which reflects an earlier count; the techedu.gov.bd homepage figures (161 TSCs, 51 polytechnics, 218 total) are treated as current. BTEB (Bangladesh Technical Education Board) is a separate autonomous body under TMED that conducts examinations and manages the admission portal; DTE is the implementation/management directorate. ASSET project budget figure (BDT 429,999.55 lakh) sourced from asset-dte.gov.bd.

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