Dhaka University of Engineering & Technology, Gazipur to its present permanent campus Gazipur City in 1983. DEC was converted to the Bangladesh Institute of Technology (BIT) , Dhaka as a degree awarding Institute by the government ordinance in 1986. From September 2003, Dhaka University of Engineering & Technology (DUET), Gazipur was created out of BIT, Dhaka. The University is located at Gazipur District, 40 km north of Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh (about 20 km from Shahjalal International Airport). This district town Gazipur is well connected by roads and railway with Dhaka and other cities of Bangladesh. DUET, Gazipur offers 7 undergraduate degrees across its 3
History of Dhaka in 1912 under the substantial grants and patronage from Dhaka Nawab Family. Following the Partition of India in August 1947, Dhaka became the capital of East Bengal under the Dominion of Pakistan. The city witnessed serious communal violence that left thousands of people dead. A large proportion of the city's Hindu population departed for India, while the city received hundreds of thousands of Muslim immigrants from the Indian states of West Bengal, Assam and Bihar. Population increased from 335,925 in 1951 to 556,712 in 1961 registering an increase of 65.7 percent. As the centre of regional politics, Dhaka saw an