PM's intervention sought to free JnU halls
Jagannath University students form a human chain on the campus in the city yesterday demanding restoration of their illegally occupied dormitories.Photo: STAR
Teachers, students and employees of Jagannath University yesterday demanded of the government to free its twelve residential halls and lands occupied by various quarters for long. They sought for the prime minister's intervention to retrieve the dormitories for solving the acute accommodation problems. They made the demand at a human chain formed from Shahid Minar to main entrance of the campus in the city. At the human chain started from around 12:00noon, Jagannath University Vice-chancellor Prof Dr Mesbahuddin Ahmed said the university authorities had been trying to retrieve the residential halls in the city's Bangshal and Katwali for long but failed. He also urged the government to evict the grabbers and sought for the prime minister's help in this regard. The vice challenger also said the authorities would soon announce several programmes, including strike-unto-death, to press home their demand. University Proctor Kazi Asaduzzaman Khan said that students were allowed to live in the halls during the Jatiya Party regime, though the university had no legal documents of these establishments. He said, they requested the higher authorities concerned several times to recover the halls, but they didn't take enough steps. The university sources alleged that the twelve dormitories of university have long been under the occupation of former lawmakers, leaders of Chhatra League and Chhatra Dal, local criminals and even the government organisations like the Dhaka City Corporation and police. Many of these illegal occupants have even prepared fake documents of their ownership of these university's dorms. Meanwhile, the students also brought out a procession following the human chain on the campus for the same demand.
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