Rajshahi University is going to celebrate its 58th founding anniversary today with festivities.
The celebration, originally scheduled for July 6, the founding day of the university, was delayed because of the countrywide general strike enforced by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party on that day.
Marking the day, the university authorities will hold a host of programmes, including a procession and a discussion.
Vice-chancellor Abdus Sobhan will commence the celebration by hoisting the national and RU flags on the Senate Building premises at about 10:00am, a release said.
He will later lead a procession participated by the staff and students of the institution.
Afterwards trees will be planted at the Teachers-Students Cultural Centre while a discussion on the history and achievement of the university is scheduled to be held at its Kazi Nazrul Islam Auditorium at 11:00am.
The cultural and political bodies of the students on campus will organise their own programmes to observe the day.
The cultural organisations will stage programmes, demanding resumption of the TSCC with full facilities.
Having commenced its journey on July 6, 1953 with six departments, 161 students and 68 teachers under three faculties, the university now has around 26,000 students and 1,040 teachers in 48 departments under nine faculties.
Covering 303.8 hectares of land RU sits in Motihar, five kilometres east of the Rajshahi city centre.
-With New Age input
