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50 DU Rokeya Hall students still staying in vulnerable building

DU Correspondent
Some 50 female students of Dhaka University (DU) are still staying in the 'Honours’ building at Rokeya Hall, although the authorities in April identified it as vulnerable to damage in the event of an earthquake.
The issue of safe shelter for them has long remained unresolved because of a row between the hall authorities and MPhil and PhD researchers residing in the Fayezunnesa Chhatri Nibas on the hall compound.
After the recent earthquake, the hall authorities evacuated 30 students from the 'Honours' building on Monday afternoon and arranged accommodation for them at Fayezunnesa Chhatri Nibas, but the students of the Clihatri Nibas sent them back to their old place five hourslater.
"We are in trouble as we still don't know where we will be shifted finally,'' said Bani Yasmin Hasi, a master's student of the 'Honours' building.
"We spend our nights in panic at the 'Honours' building," Hasi said. "Moreover, we left behind all our belongings at the Chhatri Nibas when we are driven away from there on Monday night," she told The Daily Star.
After the recent earthquake that shook the city in the early hours on Sunday, the DU syndicate decided to shift the students of'Honours' building to the Fayezunnessa Chhatri Nibas. According to die decision, the hall audiori ties shifted 30 students to that building.
Meanwhile, the Rokeya Hall authorities have taken a decision, in principal, to shift all the students of Honours building to Fayezunnesa Chhatri Nibas after cancelling the allotment of rooms to some researchers who are not conducting any research works for a long period.
"I will inform the provost committee and die university high-ups of their (researchers of Fayezunnessa) non-cooperation with the hall authorities and take action against them accordingly," Rokeya Hall Provost Prof Laila Noor told reporters at her office yesterday.
"It is really annoying that they are not complying with the authorities’ decision," she added.
• She also said •that'a number of seats are lying vachnrat’,the
Feyznunnesa buildingand that some researchers have been staying there for about 6 to 10 years, but they are virtually no longer involved in research work.
Aklima Akter Julia, a resident researcher of Fayezunnesa, alleged
that the hall authorities have provided shelter to the Honours building students in the Chhatri Nibas at will.
"The authorities also did not discuss the mater with us. Moreover, they cancelled allotment of rooms to
some researchers, including mine, who opposed the shifting of the studen ts to this building," she said.
Julia also said that a group of researchers met Vice Chancellor Prof SMA Faiz yesterday and informed him of the situation.