M M Jasim :
The Dhaka University (DU) campus wears a deserted look, as most of the residential and the non-residential students have already left the campus for their homes on account of the Eid-ul-Azha and the Durga Puja.
The teachers, the officials and the employees also got 11 days vacation. Most of them have left the varsity campus for the same purpose.
Shihab Uddin, a 4th year student of Sociology
Department, told The New Nation in cell phone that he reached home on Sunday as his class had been suspended a day before.
Firoz Alam, a guard of Shaheed Sergeant Zahurul Haque Hall, said, a very small number of students are still in the halls.
The student leaders are going to their respective towns and villages to meet their family members and the neighbours.
Chandra Shekhor, Organising Secretary of BCL, DU unit, said, the Puja that has already started will end on Saturday while the Eid will be celebrated on Monday. That is why the student leaders went home earlier, even before closure of the university.
TSC Director Alamgir Hossain said, the students do not generally stay on the varsity premises during the religious festivals like two Eids. They will come back a day before the university classes resume.
Sushmita Biswas, a student of Rokeya Hall, said her home district is Rangpur. She will go home before horrible traffic jam.
DU Vice-Chancellor Professor A A M S Arefin Siddique told The New Nation that the vacation would continue till October 18. It would be easy for the students to observe the festivals. The students have already started to go home, he said.
