Students of Jagannath University on Sunday went out demonstrations boycotting classes on the university campus to press home their various demands, including construction of residential halls in the empty area of Dhaka central jail in Old Dhaka.
Several hundred of students brought out procession and paraded on the campus since morning shouting different slogans in favour of their demands.
The students alleged that they were suffering from severe residential problems as the university authorities could not manage any house for a single student since establishment of the university.
At present they are facing various problems at rented houses over the ongoing issue of extremism, the students alleged said.
They said if they got the former central jail land in Old Dhaka, their residential problems would be removed.
We will go for stern movement gradually if the authorities do not take effective steps to get the land of the jail, they said.
The university authorities sent a letter to the home ministry over permanent ownership of the former Dhaka central jail’s land on March 23, 2014. But they were yet to get any answer from the ministry.
In the letter to home ministry, the authorities mentioned that the land should be used for building residential halls to solve the housing crisis of the students.
