By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Guwahati: Baha Uddin Laskar, Chief Engineer, Public Health Engineering Department, Government of Assam, passed away at International Hospital in Guwahati after suffering a massive heart attack on Tuesday afternoon. He was 59.
Born in Shantipur Village of Ganirgram Part III in Katigorah of Cachar District, he was a brilliant student right from his early childhood and had been awarded scholarship from primary school level. His father late Maulana Kutub Uddin Laskar was a religious person and respected in society. He was the youngest of five brothers and two sisters in the family.
Laskar (Left) receiving an award from Assam food and civil supplies minister Nazrul Islam last year. (file photo)
After completing Higher Secondary Examination in first division in 1972, he enrolled himself for B Sc course in St Edmund’s College Shillong but left for Jorhat Engineering College the same year as he got a seat there. In 1979 he completed his BE (Civil).
Thereafter he joined service and was posted as Assistant Engineer (PHE) at Hailakandi. He also served at Diphu and Gossaigaon in different capacities until he was posted in Guwahati first as Under Secretary and then as Deputy Secretary PHE.
He had held additional responsibilities as the Chief Executive Officer, Assam State haj Committee for three years from 2008 to 2010. He was also serving as the President of Nadwatut Tameer, Guwahati City Unit and Vice President of Minority Welfare Society Guwahati at the time of his demise. A very religious person, Laskar had performed Hajj three times and Umrah Hajj several times.
He left behind him, wife Perbin Sultana Laskar and three sons – Dr Junaid Masud Laskar, a post-doctoral scientist at Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organisation Dynamics of Complex Fluids, Germany; Ubaid Mahfuz Laskar currently a software engineer in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; and Suaid Masfur Laskar now pursuing M Sc (IT & management) in University of Huddersfield, UK.
Well wishers gather at the residence of Laskar.
Prof Saad Uddin Choudhury, Department of chemistry, cotton College and a long time associate of Laskar, said, “Baha Uddin was deeply religious and helpful to the poor. His death is a great loss to the society.”
A large crowd of friends, relatives and colleagues of Laskar had gathered at his South Sarania residence late in the afternoon to pay their last tribute to his departed soul. Later in the evening, a motorcade carrying his body left for his ancestral village in Cachar. On arrival of his sons from abroad, he will be laid to rest after Asr prayers in his village.