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DU losing environment-friendly campus

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Dhaka University (DU) campus is losing its environment-friendly atmosphere day by day as the authorities are constructing a number of new buildings cutting a large number of trees on the campus.
Sources said around 150 trees were felled in last five years to create space for new buildings making the campus a concrete lungle.
The university authorities virtually did not take any significant steps to plant new trees on the campus to make up for losses.
Moreover, new buildings are being constructed wherever the minimum space for their construction is available.
It seems that the university
administration has no master plan for its development works on the campus.
"Committees and s o b • committees were formed several times earlier in order to make a master plan to carry out the development work in a planned way. But there was no outcome," said ProVC ProfYusuf Haider.
There is still a sub-committee to make the plan, but it is virtually inactive years after years, he added.
The authorities are now trying to start the construction work of the proposed three-storied building for the Department of Persian Literature on the southern side of the Central Library, popularly known as 'Hakim Ch attar.'
At least 20 small and full-grown trees will have to be cut if the building is constructed on that place.
Meanwhile, at least 25 trees were felled recently on the Jagannath Hall premises to begin the construction work of a fivestoried residential building, neglecting students' request to construct the building without cutting some full ■ grown trees.
"Constructing new buildings on temporary basis is not justified. To create space for new buildings, trees are being felled on the campus. But a university' campus needs sufficient open space and green to maintain its academic atmosphere." said Emeritus Professor Dr Serajul Islam Chowdhury.
"Once open space and green were the unique characteristics of DU. Its development work must be carried out under a master plan, and there should be a vision how we want to see this campus," said
Prof Chowdhury while talking to The Daily Star on July 12.
In 1921, DU started its journey on 640 acres of land with 877 students, 60 teachers and 12 departments.
After 87 years of its inception, the university is now running on 254 acres of land with over 35 thousand students, around 15 hundred teach ers and 56 departments under seven faculties and nine institutes including 19 bureaus and research centres and 18 dormitories.
The university lost its around 380 acres of land during this period due to administration's failure, political intervention and govern-ment'soccupation.
Despite many attempts at different times, the university administrations could not recover any land from the occupants.