UNB, Dhaka :
Certain rules and security measures were well in place for past several years keeping intact the academic atmosphere of the country’s numero uno public university. Not any longer.
Dhaka University (DU) campus is now facing the menaces of mugging, night-time insecurity and overcrowding by outsiders.
There were manned security posts at different entry points (Shahbagh, Nilkhet, High Court Mazhar, Ananda Bazar and Plassey) to DU campus and unless for any emergencies – the outsiders and public transports were not allowed to the campus after 8pm. Teachers, residential students, staffs and other members of the varsity family used to feel secured. But the current situation of the university is totally different.
Now there is no existence of security cheek posts at any entry points and there is literally no control over increasing number of outsiders’ movements. DU residents are complaining about the frequent incidents of thefts, hijackings and extortions in recent months. General students attributed these to the lax by the administration, which they complained, is no longer enforcing the security rules and vehicular movement rules on the campus properly. Rashedul Haque Khan, a 4th year student of Arabic Department said, “We have no security on campus. You can be robbed off or run over by outsiders’ cars anytime on this campus.”
They alleged that incidents of hijacking and theft have increased alarmingly.
On Nov 19 last year, handbag of a former DU Mass Communication and Journalism Department student, Shariful Islam, was snatched near at the Memory Eternal in front of the Vice-Chancellor’s official residence.
Certain rules and security measures were well in place for past several years keeping intact the academic atmosphere of the country’s numero uno public university. Not any longer.
Dhaka University (DU) campus is now facing the menaces of mugging, night-time insecurity and overcrowding by outsiders.
There were manned security posts at different entry points (Shahbagh, Nilkhet, High Court Mazhar, Ananda Bazar and Plassey) to DU campus and unless for any emergencies – the outsiders and public transports were not allowed to the campus after 8pm. Teachers, residential students, staffs and other members of the varsity family used to feel secured. But the current situation of the university is totally different.
Now there is no existence of security cheek posts at any entry points and there is literally no control over increasing number of outsiders’ movements. DU residents are complaining about the frequent incidents of thefts, hijackings and extortions in recent months. General students attributed these to the lax by the administration, which they complained, is no longer enforcing the security rules and vehicular movement rules on the campus properly. Rashedul Haque Khan, a 4th year student of Arabic Department said, “We have no security on campus. You can be robbed off or run over by outsiders’ cars anytime on this campus.”
They alleged that incidents of hijacking and theft have increased alarmingly.
On Nov 19 last year, handbag of a former DU Mass Communication and Journalism Department student, Shariful Islam, was snatched near at the Memory Eternal in front of the Vice-Chancellor’s official residence.
