Dhaka, June 19 -- Amid criticism of a proposal to name a school in Bogura's Shibganj after State Minister for Local Government Mir Shahe Alam, the state minister claims that he had sent a semi-official demand letter (DO letter) before the proposal was made so that the school would not be named after him.

The school authorities had proposed that the name of Shibganj Pilot Girls High School be changed to "Shibganj Mir Shahe Alam Pilot Girls High School".

In a letter sent to the chairman of the Rajshahi Education Board and the Bogura deputy commissioner on Jun 9, the Secondary and Higher Education Division (Private Secondary Branch-1) [SHED] of the Ministry of Education directed them to conduct a necessary investigation and provide opinion...