The “Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University Act 2001″ was passed in the national Parliament on 09 July 2001. The foundation stone of the University was laid by the then Honorable Prime Minister Shiekh Hasina on 15 July 2001 and inaugurated the university activities through the appointment of the first Vice-Chancellor Professor Md. Shadat Ulla. The Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University had started its formal functions on 11 September 2001 following the issuance of a notification by the Government as per requirement of the “Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University Act 2001″.
The Bengal Agricultural Institute (BAI) was established on December 11, 1938 by Sher-e-Bangla A.K. Fazlul Huq, the then Chief Minister of undivided Bengal. At that time the name of this institution was “The Bengal Agricultural Institute” was renamed “East Pakistan Agricultural Institute” in 1947. After the emergence of Bangladesh as an independent country in 1971, the name of the institute was spontaneously changed to the Bangladesh Agricultural Institute (BAI). Since its inception in 1938, the BAI had been functioning as a “Faculty of Agriculture” under Dhaka University. Meanwhile, with the establishment of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) at Mymensingh in 1961 its academic function was transferred to BAU in 1964 till it’s up gradation to Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University in 2001.
