About BCS

About BCS

Bangladesh Chemical Society (BCS) was founded as a learned society in 1972 after independence of Bangladesh. It is a largest professional organization of chemists, applied chemists, chemical technologists, chemical engineers, researchers in chemical sciences etc. of our beloved country having common professional interests, committed to promote real life learning with activities.

Bangladesh Chemical Society is a founder member of the Federation of the Biological and Chemical Societies of Bangladesh (FBCS). The Society is also a member (NAO- National Adhering Organization) of International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), Commonwealth Chemistry (CC), Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and Federation of Asian Chemical Societies (FACS).

The BCS is a non-government, non-political national organization of professional chemists and is dedicated to improving the quality of chemical education and research, industrial and technological output and overall well-being of the chemists and chemical technologists, chemistry lovers of Bangladesh. Professor Mukarram Hussain Khundkar (DU), Professor Mofizuddin Ahmed (DU), Professor KA Latif (RU), Professor AQ Chowdhury (BUET), Professor AK Shamsuddin Ahmed (CU), Professor SZ Haider (DU), Professor MA Nawab (DU), Prof M. M. Huque (JU), Professor A Jabbar Mian (DU), Professor SSMA Khorasani (DU), Dr Erfan Ali (BCSIR), Dr. Shamsul Huque (AEC) and Dr Abdur Rahman (BCSIR) were pioneers behind this venture. At present the society has 5000 members including life, ordinary and associate members who are professionally engaged in different universities, colleges, and research institutions, chemical & pharmaceutical industries, financial organization and in civil administration of the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) etc. The overall activities of the Society are run by a central Executive Committee (EC) consists of seventeen (17) members and nine Regional Committee of nine (9) members in some selected areas of the whole country elected for a two-year term as per existing constitution of BCS.

The objectives of BCS are to promote, to popularize, to expand through national chemistry Olympiad (Bangladesh Chemistry Olympiad, BChO, started from 2007 under BCS) and to improve the standard of education and research in chemistry, chemical technology and relevant fields throughout the whole country; to safeguard the interests and prestige of the professional chemists in different industries and institutions; to address any professional discrimination, to promote coordination, interaction and collaboration among universities-research organizations and industries (academia-industry collaboration) in Bangladesh and those of other countries; to spread the knowledge of chemistry and its applications by publishing articles, reports, periodicals, journals. The society since its inception has been dedicated to enhance and to improve the quality of chemical education & research, and industrial & technological output of the country.

 

Warm wishes.

Dr. Mohammad Helal Uddin (LM-1446)

Professor (Grade-1), ACCE, CU

General Secretary of BCS

NR of CCE, IUPAC.