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The Jagannath University “Tibet Hall” is still in the possession of local MP Haji Selim on the 7.69 katha land at GL Perth Lane No. 8 and 9 of Waizghat in Patuatuli, Old Dhaka. The hall could not be rescued from Haji Selim despite repeated protests from Jagannath students and guarantees from the government.
Ignoring all obstacles, he changed the infrastructure of the hall in 2001 and built a massive 10-story building named after his wife ‘Gulshan Ara City Market’.
This market has about a thousand business houses. Tibet is one of 11 halls where Jagannath was evicted. Although Jagannath students formed a movement to rescue these hallways, nothing was done even after the biggest movement of the week in 2014. On the contrary, there are allegations that the student movement was thwarted by beating bullies.
The Awami League faculty organization of Jagannath University, the chairman of the blue party, Prof. Zakaria Mia said that the university professors and students have been protesting the rescue of the evicted people at different times. Guarantees were also given from various sectors of the government. But in the evolution of time it was not possible. Since Jagannath University is still a non-residential university, the government should reclaim the land and hand it over to the university administration to accommodate the students.
FM Shariful Islam, convener of Hall Rescue Student Struggle Parishad and former chair of the Chhatra League of Jagannath University, said: “When our hall rescue movement intensified in 2014, the government convened a high-powered committee of hall rescue by summoning Dhaka-6 MP Kazi Firoz Rashid “. .
Meanwhile, between 2008 and 2011, Haji Selim changed the infrastructure of the ‘Gulshan Ara city market’ and sold the stall as a shop. Then we have to face thousands of merchants in the rescue movement. So we couldn’t get along with merchants from a social point of view.
‘Tibet Hall’ is known to be one of the vacated rooms at Jagannath University, according to information provided by the Property Branch of the Dhaka Deputy Commissioner’s Office (Smarak Jepradha / Arpit / 1183). In 2009, the university authorities sent a letter to the Dhaka Deputy Commissioner requesting his help in rescuing Tibet Hall.
The letter asked the administration to take steps to establish ownership of Jagannath University by evicting them from the roughly 14,000-square-foot vacant space (Tibet Hall) used by squatters. But even today the administration has not taken any initiative. However, Haji Selim demolished the old Tibet Hall building and rebuilt it, but until 2011 there was a sign saying “Tibet Hall”.
The students are known to have lived in the vacated hallways of Jagannath University (then Jagannath College) until 1975. The Home Office closed all but three hallways after Shaheed Abdur Rahman Hall students clashed with locals in Armanitola on February 8 of that year.
One of them is ‘Tibet Hall’ at GL Perth Lane, Wizghat 6 and 9, Patuatuli. The students clashed with the locals when they tried to reclaim the hallway once in the nineties
. At one point, locals set fire to the second floor of the building, the then director. Habibur Rahman brought the students. Until 2011, signs reading ‘Tibet Hall’ were seen at various locations on Perth Lane, but students were unable to return.
The last time Jagannath students surrounded the room was in 2014, when Haji Selim’s supporters attacked and the police beat and shot him. On the same day, Nasiruddin, the head of the English department, was shot and more than three hundred students were injured.
At this time, the Jagannath University Professors Association carried out various programs, including the human chain in the university hall rescue movement. According to university sources, the Musih Muhith Audit Firm was given the responsibility to explain all the properties of the defunct university under the Jagannath University Act of 2005.
A search of the firm found that many of the university’s hallways at the time were vacated, including Tibet Hall. Former deputy speaker of the Jagannath College student parliament and Dhaka-6 MP Kazi Firoz Rashid, convener of the hall rescue committee, said a report has been submitted to the government to rescue the Jagannath University hall. Some rooms were also rescued.
But it was not possible to rescue the corridors as the matter was not investigated. Haji Mohammad, Deputy General Manager of Gulshan Ara City Market. Mojibur Rahman claimed the room for themselves, saying that the market had never belonged to Jagannath University.
The university authorities also gave us a letter at that time stating that it was not the Jagannath University hall. Hafiz, a local Patuatuli resident, said the students from the then Jagannath College would have lived in Tibet. But now he is evicted.
Since it is a place of education, the government should hand it over to the university.
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