Raujan Correspondent: On the birth anniversary of martyred intellectual Nutan Chandra Singh, the founder of Kundeshwari Institutions, the new generation has been urged to be inspired by his patriotism and self-sacrifice. Citizens expressed this opinion in a discussion and prayer meeting at the Kundeshwari Bhavan in Raujan, offering wreaths to Nutan Chandra Singh’s portrait on Friday.
Nutan Chandra Singh was born on December 1, 1900, in Raujan. Nutan Chandra Singh, who grew up through a difficult life struggle from childhood, later built several educational institutions for women’s education, including Kundeshwari Pharmacy, which gave women the courage to stand on their own two feet with women’s education in Raujan and Chittagong. Not only that, on the eve of the great liberation war, he was one of the patrons of the freedom fighters, the politicians who were on the side of the liberation war.
In 1971, when many people crossed the border and took shelter in India to escape the killings and tortures of the Pakistani forces, he still did not leave this Kundeshwari despite hundreds of requests from many people. As a result, he paid the ultimate price with his life. On April 13, 1971, the infamous Razakar Salauddin Quader Chowdhury (Sa Ka Chowdhury) went to the Kundeshwari Hospital with the help of the Pak Army and brutally killed this humanitarian education lover in front of the Kundeshwari Temple. However, in 2015, Saka Chowdhury had to be hanged for his anti-human activities.
In the service of humanity, Kundeswari Drugvalaya Limited, one of the Ayurvedic institutes of the Indian subcontinent, was established. Kundeshwari Welfare Trust organizes the ‘Shaheed Nutanchandra Singh Memorial Scholarship’ and meritorious felicitation program in his name. In 2011, Nutan Chandra Singh was awarded (posthumously) the ‘Freedom Award-2011’ in recognition of his extraordinary and meritorious contribution in the field of freedom and liberation.
On the 123rd birth anniversary of this great martyr on Friday, various organizations, including the Kundeshwari Medicine Association, Kundeshwari Education Association, and Kundeshwari Alumni Association, paid their respects to him through various programs, including placing wreaths on his portrait.
According to the “Kundeshwari Alumni Association,” besides offering wreaths and paying respects to the memory of Shaheed Nutan Chandra Singh at the Kundeshwari family cremation altar, wife Manorama Singh of Shaheed Nutan Chandra Singh, his two sons Satya Singh and Prafulla Ranjan Singh, and his daughter-in-law, former Principal Smt. Kalyani, also laid wreaths at Singh’s grave.
At the time, the organizers said that this land and one of its regions would be forever indebted to the contribution and glorious sacrifice of Martyr Nutan Chandra Singh. In the history of glorious independent Bangladesh, he is immortal and eternal.
