Sabihuddin Ahmed

Sabihuddin Ahmed was a one star officer of the Bangladesh Army and one of the directors of Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini. He was the founding chairman of Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board.

Career

After the Independence of Bangladesh, President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman appointed Ahmed to the Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini led by Brigadier General A. N. M. Nuruzzaman. The Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini was a special paramilitary force composed of veterans of the Bangladesh Liberation War. The force was assimilated into the Bangladesh Army after the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the 15 August 1975 Bangladeshi coup d'état. In 1977, President Ziaur Rahman asked Ahmed to head the recently established Rural Electrification Board. He agreed on the condition that he would have complete autonomy to operate the organization. The United States Agency for International Development provided US$50 million at the beginning of the program. He met Senator Larry Lee Pressler on his tour of Dhaka in 1985.