NUB students ransack campus
Northern University Bangladesh (NUB) students ransacked parts of its building in the city's Tejgaon and blocked Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue for around 15 minutes yesterday protesting NUB's decision to transfer them to a rented campus in Banani.
Around 400 students of English department also demonstrated at the building in the afternoon saying that the NUB authorities, during admission, claimed that the building is their permanent campus but are now denying it.
“Now the authorities decided to transfer the English department students to the rented Banani campus. We are being cheated,” said one student, Ifrit Yasmin.
The authorities claimed that the government declared this campus illegal. But this is not true, she said.
However, NUB Vice Chancellor Prof M Shamsul Haque said the University Grants Commission is not approving any university campus by any VIP road.
“Before going to our Savar campus, which would be constructed soon, we are temporarily moving the students to the Banani campus,” he said.
Asked why students were informed that the Tejgaon campus was permanent, Prof Haque said the university owns the building.
Another student, Abu Naser, said most students of the English department live and earn from private tuitions around Farmgate and so it is difficult for them to go to the Banani campus.
“If we are to be transferred, we want to be in its permanent campus in Savar,” he said.
Following the agitation, NUB cancelled classes till November 24. The NUB syndicate will hold a meeting on November 23 to address the problems of the agitating students.
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