 With his dream, he established the Bangla College at Mirpur, Dhaka in 1962 and served the college as Principal till 1981.He was the forerunner in introducing textbooks in Bengali for higher education and contributed much in initiating the Bengali version of the question papers for higher education.Kashem received a number of national and social awards, including "Independence Day Award" in 1993, "Ekushey Padak" in 1987, "Bangla Academy Literary Award" (for his book Biggan Somaj O Dhormo) in 1982, "Islamic foundation Award" in 1988, "Pakistan Writers guild award" in 1964 etc.