Dhaka University (DU) Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique has said debate competitions show the ways of finding the truth to build an intelligence and logic-based society.
“By giving logics defending or opposing a proposal, we can find out the truth that helps us make a decision perceiving the reality,” a DU press release quoted Arefin Siddique as he saying as chief guest at the concluding ceremony of the ’12th Nafiya Gazi Inter-Department Debate Competition’ on DU campus on Friday.
The VC urged the students to acquire knowledge remaining firm on truth and logic.
Former Chief Economist of Bangladesh Bank Heerupakkha Paul and Associate Editor of the Prothom Alo Anisul Haque spoke at the function at DU Teacher-Student Center (TSC) Auditorium with DU Debating Society (DUDS) President Rayhan Shanan in the chair.
DUDS organized the debate competition in association with the Prothom Alo where student teams from 46 departments of the university took part.
The team of Institute of Disaster Management and Vulnerability Studies Department became champion while the team of Political Science Department became runner up in the competition.
Commemorating Nafiya, former student of DU Economics Department, who was killed in a road accident in 1991, DUDS organizes the competition in every two years.
