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DU students take to street for safe campus

UNB . Dhaka
05 Dec 2022 00:00:00 | Update: 05 Dec 2022 00:12:02
DU students take to street for safe campus

Students of Dhaka University held protest rallies to make a safe campus and launched campaigns to control the vehicles in the campus area.

At 11am on Sunday, students started gathering at the foot of the anti-terrorist Raju monument where they observed a minute of silence by taping their mouths and eyes to symbolize the inaction of the administration for a safe campus and pressed an 11-point demand for a safe campus.

During the campaign, students stopped various vehicles inside the campus area and redirected them if they found the vehicles unwanted in the campus.

Protesting students are staying at VC Chattar of the University till now. Most of the students are from 2019-20 and 2020-21 academic session of Dhaka University.

After that they went to the important roads of the campus to control traffic in the campus area.

“Everyday 37,000 regular students move around the campus putting their life in security risk. Last Friday, a woman was dragged to death on the campus by a private car,” one of protesters said, demanding to ensure a safe campus for students.

“This campus is not a racing ground but during night time, outsiders come to the campus and most often they do car racing and motorcycle racing. Heavy vehicles also move around the campus which is very risky for the students. Anything could happen anytime,” another student said seeking anonymity.

Imran Hossain Fahim, a student of Bijoy Ekattor hall who participated in a vehicles-control campaign in DU area, was injured by an autorickshaw, when he tried to stop it as it was entering the campus area with two of its passengers playing vuvuzelas (flute) with intense sound.

Sir AF Rahman hall, Begum Ruqayyah Hall and Shamsunnahar hall students are the most bothered by extremely loud sounds of vehicles and outsider’s chaos since the FIFA World Cup 2022 started, as there are big screens with sound systems set up by Dhaka University’s Chhatra League unit for showing matches.

The screens are at the Haji Mohammad Muhsin Hall Field, TSC premises and Soparjito Swadhinata premises, where thousands of outsiders come to see world cup matches and make extremely loud sounds with vuvuzelas and other instruments.

“We came here to study, not to see such an awkward situation. I have an exam tomorrow (December 4) but I could not study for loud sounds,” Bushra Zaman, a student of Shamsunnahar Hall told UNB.

In Facebook posts, many other students of different halls also expressed that they couldn’t study due to noise levels. Protesting students have submitted a memorandum to the Vice-Chancellor regarding the demands.

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