Dhaka, May 29 -- The interim government has changed the names of 68 government colleges previously named after deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and members of her family.

The education ministry's Secondary and Higher Education Division announced the decision in a notification on Wednesday.

The division said the name changes were made in accordance with the directive issued by the Cabinet's implementation monitoring branch on Feb 9.

On Aug 5 last year, Hasina resigned from her premiership and fled to India in the face of a student-led mass uprising.

Since the interim government took office on Aug 8, it has renamed institutions that were named after Hasina, her father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, members of their family, and A...