Ban heavy vehicles on DU campus
Demand students
Police bar entrances of heavy vehicles on Dhaka University (DU) campus yesterday to check road accidents there, inset, some vehicles of DU teachers, students and staff are parked out side of the campus at Palashi intersection following the bar.Photo : Star
A section of Dhaka University (DU) students yesterday demanded imposing of a ban on the movement of heavy vehicles on the streets of the campus and setting up of security posts at its entry points. With the demands, some students of Jagannath Hall brought out a procession on the campus early yesterday. They placed the demand before the university Proctor Dr KM Saiful Islam Khan. The students made the demand in the wake of a road accident that hurt a student of the hall on Thursday. The victim Sadhan Kumar Ghosh received injuries when a private car, driven by a trainee driver on the campus, hit him from behind. Agitating students also staged demonstration in front of the official residence of DU Vice Chancellor Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique. Meanwhile, Pragatishil Chhatra Jote leaders, an alliance of left leaning student bodies, demanded a parmanent solution to the problem of road accident on campus streets. Speaking at a press conference at Madhur Canteen, the leaders said university administration should take effective measures immediately to control the movement of public vehicles on campus. On the other hand, Prof Arefin urged the students to be more careful when they walk on the campus roads. Authorities are taking initiatives to stop entrance of heavy vehicles and will extremely monitor the maximum 20 km speed per hour for others on the campus roads, he told reporters. The VC said stern action would be ensured against people using the campus as a training place to learn driving and speeding motorcycles or cars on the campus.
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