The New Nation - Internet Edition

DU Correspondent

Dhaka University residential halls will reopen today amid tight security.

All the Halls will reopen simultaneously at 10:00am and students will be allowed to enter their respective dormitories after producing their identity cards. The classes will resume from October 28.

No police personnel will be deployed in the Halls but the house tutors will guide the students in every floor.

University authority has taken tight security measures on the campus ahead of the reopening of the campus. Police forces will be deployed in different spots on the campus.

Hall Provosts held a meeting with the House Tutors last night and took some decisions. Students have to show their ID cards on entry and have to stay in their allotted rooms are some of the main decisions taken at the meeting.

Earlier, a delegation of teachers belonging to the Blue Panel met with the Vice-chancellor (VC) Prof SMA Faiz and made a request to ensure freeing of the arrested teachers.

Leader of the delegation Prof AAMS Arefin Siddiqui demanded the release of the arrested teachers and students before the reopening of the university and withdrawal of the cases filed against teachers and students.

He said congenial atmosphere on the campus would only return if the detained teachers were freed otherwise it would remain uncertain.

Meanwhile, another delegation of teachers belonging to the White Panel met with the VC and discussed the same issues.

Vice-chancellor Prof SMA Faiz said in a briefing that every teacher of the university demands reopening of the university. So, there is no impediment to its reopening, he said.

DU VC said there is no relation between the freeing of teachers with the reopening of the university.

But they were in constant touch with the government in this regard, he added.

He assured the teachers and students that they would not be harassed any further and hoped that it would be possible to reduce session jam, if examinations were held in time after the reopening of the university.

Pro VC Prof Yusuf Haider, Treasurer Prof Abul Kalam Azad, Proctor Prof AK Firoz Ahmed and Provost of Ekushey Hall Prof Akhter Hossain, among others, were present in the briefing.