British India Returning from London, Qudrat joined Presidency College at the Department of Chemistry as a lecturer in 1931, later became a professor and then the head of the department in 1936. He then served as the principal of Islamia College (now
Maulana Azad College) in Calcutta during 1942-1944. This laboratory later became
Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and headquartered at
Dhanmondi, Dhaka, now colloquially known as Science Laboratory. He served as its director until 1966. Qudrat served as the president of
Bangla Academy during 1964–1965. He was then the chairman of Central Board for the Development of Bengali until 1968. The report proposed to increase government spending on education to at least 25 percent, make primary education compulsory and free up to the eighth grade, introduce Bengali at all levels of education, give special importance to science and agricultural education, expand technical and engineering education, form a manpower commission, appoint the most qualified people as teachers and establish their salary structure at the highest level. In 1973, he was elected as the founder president of
Bangladesh Academy of Sciences. He served as a visiting professor of chemistry at the
University of Dhaka from 1975 until his death in
Dhaka on 3 November 1977. ==Awards==