Ismail Faruque Chowdhury

Major General Md. Ismail Faruque Chowdhury is the retired Engineer-in-Chief of the Bangladesh Army. He was born on 25 July 1953 in the Maulvibazar District of the Sylhet Division of Bangladesh. He passed his HSC examination from Dhaka College in the year 1970. He was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers of the Bangladesh Army on 25 December 1977 after completing his training at the Bangladesh Military Academy. During service in the Army he completed the BSc and MSc degrees in Civil Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology at Dhaka. He served in the UN Peacekeeping Force UNTAET in East Timor as Commander of the Bangladesh Engineer Battalion from March 2000 to March 2001. He commanded an Independent Engineer Brigade in Dhaka. He was the 4th Commandant of the Military Institute of Science and Technology in Mirpur Cantonment, Dhaka, Bangladesh. In February 2006 he was appointed as Engineer-in-Chief (E-in-C) of the Bangladesh Army. As E-in-C, he was also the head of the Military Engineer Services of the Bangladesh Armed Forces. Maj Gen Ismail Faruque was a participant of the Senior International Defense Management Course (SIDMC)-2006 at the Defense Resource Management Institute (DRMI), Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Monterey, California, USA. After attaining 55 years of age he qualified for obtaining Normal Retirement from Military Service and proceeded on Leave Preparatory to Retirement (LPR) on 24 July 2008.

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