A Brief Profile of Urban and Rural Planning

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Discipline of Khulna University, Bangladesh

Md. Ashiq-Ur-Rahman Tuhin

Lecturer
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Urban and Rural Planning p
Khulna University
Khulna-9208, Bangladesh
web:www.kuurp.ac.bd
VISION OF THE DISCIPLINE

•Khulna University is the first public University in the south-western region of

Bangladesh established in 1987.

•Academic activities of the University commenced in 1991 with

four disciplines.

•Urban and Rural Planning is one of the four pioneering

disciplines of this University that took its first intake in 1991.

•The undergraduate and graduate degree programmes of the Discipline aim

to create pplanners with comprehensive
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planning to shape, manage, direct and control development at local, regional
and national levels.

•This is a multidisciplinary Discipline to produce skilled planners for the country

imbued with the most up-to-date and modern planning techniques.
 DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Bachelor of Urban and Rural Planning (BURP)

Master of Urban and Rural Planning (MURP)

Course Assessment
Each course, irrespective of the credit hours attributed to the course, graded in a scale of
4. Minimum credit hours for BURP is 160 and for MURP is 120.

The major courses taught at undergraduate and graduate levels cover the following areas
of knowledge:
•Urban Planning and Development
•Housing and Settlement
•Transportation Planning and Engineering
•Disaster Studies including Earthquake, Cyclone
•Environmental Studies
•Naturall Resources Planning
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•Urban Economics
•Governance
•Rural Planning and Development
•Geo-referencing
G f i and
d Information
I f ti System
S t (GIS)
•Project Planning and Management
•Planning Law
•Gender Issue
Method of Grading
Theory courses: The total marks in the course will be in the following way:
Attendance 10
Continuous Assessment 30
Term final Examination 60

Course Assessment
Each course, irrespective of the credit hours attributed to
the course, will be graded in a scale of 4 (four).

Percentage of Letter
Grade point
marks grade
80% and above A+ 4.00
75% to below 80% A- 3.75
70% to below 75% B+ 3.50
65% to below 70% B 3.25
60% to
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b l 65% C
C+ 3 00
3.00
55% to below 60% C 2.75
50% to below 55% D+ 2.50
45% to below 50% D 2 25
2.25
40% to Below 45% E 2.00
Below 40% F 0.00
FACULTIES

Dr. Md. Rezaul Karim Dr. Md. Ghulam Murtaza Dr. Mahmudul Hasan
Professor Professor Professor

Akhter Hussain Chawdhury Dr. Md. Ashraful Alam

Professor Head

Dr. Mohsin Uddin Ahmed Dr. Shamim Mahabubul Haque

Professor Professor
Md. Ahsanul Kabir Mustafa Saroar* AHM Mehbub Anwar
Associate Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor

SK Mursalin Mamun* Saiful Momen* Sohel Jahangir Ahmed*

Associate Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor

Dr. Khan Rubayet Rahman Reazul Ahsan* Shahidul Hasan Swapan

Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor
Fawzia Farzana KH Md. Nahiduzzaman* Kazi Saiful Islam*
Lecturer Lecturer Lecturer

Tanjil Sawgat* Md. Ashiq-Ur-Rahman Md. Mostafizur Rahman

Lecturer Lecturer Lecturer

Md. Zakir Hossain Rakib Hossain*

Lecturer Lecturer
FACILTIES
The discipline emphasizes on the most up-to-date and modern planning tools and
techniques. In this regard the discipline has three labs:

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•GIS Lab 1

•Remote Sensing Lab

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•Engineering Survey Lab 4

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GIS Lab 9 12 13

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The lab is used for the Geographic Information System.

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Function of the Lab: Analyzing spatial data, data

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Legend
preparation, interpretation and modeling.
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Distance of CBD 25 29
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365.00 - 2450.00 meter 27

Instrument: 35 Computers having the brand Intel Pentium 4

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2450.01 - 4330.00 meter 24

4330.01 - 6250.00 meter

processor.
6250.01 - 8750.00 meter
8750.01 - 12000.00 meter 31
PKCCWRD Polygon

Software: Arc info, Arc view, Arc GIS 9 0 1,400 2,800 5,600 Meters

Major Success: Sundarban Bio-Diversity Conservation

Project, Suitable Site Selection for Urban Services of Khulna
city, Suitable Site Selection of Proposed Padma Bridge,
Travel Demand modeling of Khulna city.
Workshop: Three Days workshop arranged with the
collaboration of ESRI
Future Plan: Extending the lab with new 25 computers.
FACILTIES

Remote Sensing Lab

The lab is used for the Satellite Images and Aerial
Photographs.
Function of the Lab: Analysis, Classification and
interpretation of Images and modeling.
Instrument: 45 Computers having the brand Intel Pentium 4
processor.
Software: Erdas Imagine 8.4, Ilwis, Adobe Photoshop
Major Success: Preparation of Land use map of Khulna city,
Flood damage estimation of a municipality, Urban growth
trend modeling of Khulna city .
Workshop: Three Days workshop arranged with the
collaboration of ESRI
Future Plan: Extending the lab with new 35 computers.

Engineering Survey Lab

Function of the Lab: Collecting physical feature data.

Future Plan: Installing a total station.

 FACILTIES

Research Facilities

•Both in BURP and MURP a project/dissertation is required to

complete the programme.
programme

•The Discipline offers different software training facilities for

students and teachers alike to meet their everyday academic and
research needs.
needs

•The Discipline is also resourceful in reference facilities. Its seminar

library has a collection of about 3000 local and international books
and journals.
journals

•To arrange national and international seminar and conference

the discipline has a conference room with two wide screen
multimedia projector.
projector

Major Professional Research Works Done in the Discipline

•Environmental maps and workbook for Khulna city,

city Bangladesh
•Environmental risk management action plan for Khulna city, Bangladesh
•Socio-economic baseline study on the impact zone of the Sundarbans
•Link Programmes with Foreign Institutes and Universities (ADPC, DFID)
JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES
For publishing scholarly research works and writings on various fields of planning,
development, urbanization and environment, Urban and Rural Planning Discipline (URPD)
of Khulna University has been publishing PLAN PLUS since 2002
For introducing planning in a generalized view the students of Urban and Rural Planning
Discipline (URPD) publishes yearly magazine “Nogor o Nagorik”

j Features of PLAN PLUS

Major
•A peer reviewed journal
•PLAN PLUS publishes scientific articles from different fields
related to rural development,
development architectural heritage,
heritage
Geographic Information System (GIS), urban management,
tourism, housing and informal sector

Major Features of “Nogor o Nagorik

•A magzine published in Bengali
Content is based on current issues of planning, discovery,
•Content
new technologies.
•Inventory of students perception about different issues of
planning.
 OUTPUT OF THE DISCIPLINE
3% 10%

Total Number of students: 29%

BURP: 172
MURP: 26
Male: 132
Female: 66
Foreigner Student: 01
Total Number of Batches: BURP: 05,, MURP: 02 58%

Number of BURP Degree Awarded Student: 282

CGPA 2.5-2.99 CGPA 3.00-3.49 CGPA 3.50-3.74 CGPA 3.75+

Academic Result of BURP Degree Awarded Student

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160 167
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 ALUMNI

URP discipline has its alumni named KUPA (Khulna University Planners Alumni). This alumni
is for those planners who have received their planning degree form Khulna University. Total
Number of members is 251.
Major activities of the Alumni

•To arrange general meeting

•To
To celebrate town planning day

Co curricular Activities of the Discipline

Annual Sports
Inter Discipline Cricket and Football Championship
Cultural Programmes
Publication of Yearly and Wall Magazine
Freshers Reception
Farwell Programme
Study Tour (SAARC Countries, Bangladesh)
 THANK YOU

www.kuurp.ac.bd

Urban and Rural Planning Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna-9208, Bangladesh