JU teachers observe work abstention

A fraction of Jahangirnagar University (JU) teachers today observed work abstention protesting against alleged corruption of the authorities and unplanned development works on the campus.

Around 50 teachers under the banner “Jahangirnagar Against Corruption” gathered around 11:30am and paraded the campus starting from Arts Faculty building to the premises of old administrative building where they held a protest rally.

The speakers at the rally demanded relocating the three male students’ dormitories which are planned to be constructed near Rabindranath Hall, and a judicial enquiry into corruption and tender snatching. 

Prof Taslima Sultana, chairperson of Anthropology department, said, “The vice-chancellor (VC) is supposed to be the guardian of a university. When unjust allegations are published in the newspapers involving her name, we cannot accept it at all.”

Meanwhile, students of the university were scheduled to bring out a procession in this afternoon with the same demands.

Agitated students of JU have been demonstrating on campus since August 23 demanding the relocation of three male students’ dormitories which the authorities planned to construct near Rabindranath Hall, and a judicial probe into the allegations of corruption.