'Start activities of Rangpur university this year'
The Rangpur University Implementation Coordination
Committee, newly formed civic body, yesterday urged the the government to take steps to start academic activities of the proposed Rangpur university from this year.
Addressing a press conference, leaders of the committee suggested that the university can be set up on 300 acres of khash land at Lahirirhat in the Sadar upazila.
Choudhury Khalequzzaman, Dr. Rezaul Hoque, Prof Mozammel Hoque and chairman of Rangpur municipality Abdur Rouf Manik spoke at the press conference.
Khalequzzaman said, past government at different times promised to set up a university in Rangpur but they did not keep their words.
As this government declared to set up a university, people of northern districts believe that they would keep its word, they said at the press conference held at a local hotel.
They said people of northern districts have long been demanding setting up of a full fledged university in the region to create scope for higher education. All political governments in the past gave hopes but did not do anything.
They also rejected the idea by some quarters that Carmichael College could be upgraded to a university. People of the region will resist any such move, they added.
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