Rajshahi University celebrates 68th founding anniversary

Rajshahi University (RU), the second largest public university in the country, on Tuesday celebrated its 68th founding anniversary in limited scale amid the Covid-19 pandemic, reports BSS.

The day’s programmes began with hoisting of national flag and university flags in front of the administrative building at 10:00am through maintaining social distancing and following other health related government’s guidelines.

Vice-chancellor-in-charge professor Ananda Kumuar Shaha accompanied by pro-vice-chancellor professor Chowdhury Jakaria and registrar professor Abdus Salam released festoons and balloons to mark the day.

RU began its journey on 6 July 1953 with only 161 students including five females and 68 teachers in 6 departments under 3 faculties.

Currently, the university has over 1,221 teachers in 58 departments under 12 faculties, along with six higher research institutes and around 38,300 regular students including 58 foreigners.

Having a green campus, it has 13 academic buildings, 17 students' halls including six for females and a dormitory for the researchers and foreign students.

Since its establishment on around 1,000 acres of land, the university has, so far, conferred 1,946 PhD and 704 M.Phil degrees.