RU students go berserk protesting water crisis
Residents of Shaheed Habibur Rahman Hall at Rajshahi University (RU) yesterday vandalised the hall protesting acute water crisis persisting over the last few days.
Fed up with the situation, around two hundred students of the hall staged demonstration with empty bottles at around 2:00pm, sources said.
At one stage, the agitating students damaged nameplates of hall officials, windowpanes of the hall office, tubs containing plants and flowers in front of the office and a water tank on the hall roof.
Later, the resident students chanted slogans against the hall administration
Informed, the hall provost along with the house tutors and hall officials rushed to the hall at around 3:00pm. The agitating students gave three hours ultimatum till 6:00pm to the hall provost to solve their problems including water crisis and management of IPS at the dining hall and games room.
Several resident students alleged that they do not get water in bathrooms and toilets for eight hours from the morning.
"We get water only two times in a day and it is for such a short time that one can hardly complete his toilet and bath with ease," said a student of the hall.
The provost of Shaheed Habibur Rahman Hall, Dr Shahid Iqbal assured the students of solving the problems immediately.
Several students alleged that life in most of the dormitories of RU has become utterly miserable during the last few days due to an acute water crisis.
Many of them are facing skin diseases and water-borne diseases as supplied water is dirty, they said.
“Residents of female students' dormitories are also badly suffering from water problem during the last few days,” said Mukti Rani Biswas, a resident of Khaleda Zia Hall of RU.
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