The New Nation - Internet Edition

DU Correspondent

Female students residing at the of Rokeya Hall of Dhaka University have been passing their days in great insecurity in the wake of the tremor on Sunday night.

However, the hall authorities shifted them to the Begum Fazilatunnesa Chowdhurani Hostel situated at the same compound of Rokeya Hall on Monday.

The hostel was being used by the students of M Phil and Ph D. After the accommodating the students of Honours Building in the Begum Fazilatunnesa Chowdhurani Hostel, the M Phill and PhD students residing at the hostel ousted all the students from their dormitory on Monday night.

Meanwhile, a meeting of the Provost Committee was held yesterday with DU VC Prof SMA Faiz in the chair.

Taking the situation into account, the meeting empowered the Rokeya Hall authorities to take any decision in this regard.

At the meeting, Prof Faiz said the students of Begum Fazilatunnesa Chowdhurani Hostel should realize the problems of the students of Honours Building. Everybody should extend cooperation to resolve the seat crisis facing by the students at the dormitories, he suggested.

The committee also took decision to repair and renovate the dilapidated buildings of DU soon.

Earlier, Fazilatunnesa Chowdhurani Hostel students met the VC and urged him to shift the students to another place.

Sources said maximum students of the hostel have been living in the hall for years in the name of research. Some of them are doing job and some engaged with politics that helping to live here.