JnU students strike for dorms continues
Meeting on residential crisis held at Education Ministry
UNB
Students of Jagannath University (JnU) continued their two-day strike for dormitories on the empty land of Dhakas old central jail on its last day yesterday, reports UNB.
Raisul Islam Nayan, a leader of the movement, had announced the strike at a press conference held on the campus on Monday noon. The students first took position from the universitys main gate up to Ray Saheb Bazar intersection at 9:30am and then in a procession proceeded towards Bangshal after breaking a police barricade at about 10:00am.
As they tried to move towards the Prime Ministers Office for submitting a memorandum, police obstructed them at the Bangshal intersection where they started a demonstration.
The students demand for residential halls on the land of the vacated Dhaka jail came as their accommodation problems took a deepening trend with landlords unwillingness to rent out houses to bachelors in the wake of militancy rise in the country.
The JnU students embarked on the movement for dormitories on the land of Dhaka Central Jail on August 2 after the transfer of its total setup to the newly-built jail facility in Keraniganj last month.
BSS adds: An emergency meeting on the ongoing demonstration of Jagannath University (JnU) students demanding residential dormitories was held at the education ministry office in the capital yesterday, reports BSS.
The meeting was presided over by Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid, Education Secretary Md. Sohrab Hossain, Additional Secretary A. S. Mahmud, Md. Helal Uddin, Ashok Kumar Bishwash and senior officers of the ministry attended the meeting, among others, said an Education Ministry press release.
During the meeting, expressing solidarity with JnU students, suffering from acute accommodation crisis, the minister said the government is cordial to solve the residential crisis of the university. He also said that the education ministry already has taken up various initiatives in this regard.
The minister sought cooperation from the people of all walk of life including guardians, teachers and students of the university to solve the crisis.
