The two-day programmes marking the 20th founding anniversary of the mass communication and journalism department of Rajshahi University began on the campus on Saturday.
Planning minister AK Khondoker inaugurated the programme as chief guest at around 9:00am while vice-chancellor Professor Abdus Sobhan presided over the inaugural session.
Rajshahi mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton and RU pro-vice-chancellor Mohammad Nurullah were special guests while lawmakers Fazle Hossain Badsha, Shahriar Alam and Shaheen Monwara Haque were also present on the occasion.
At around 10:00am a blood donation programme, organised by Badhon, was held in front of the MCJ department.
A vote campaign for Sundarban was also held at the same place at around 10:15am.
A colourful procession was brought out led by the department’s teachers, students, staff and guests at around 11:00am from Shabas Bangladesh Chattar and it paraded the campus.
A tree plantation progrmme was also held in front of the department at around 12:30pm while a photo exhibition was also held at the corridor of the department at around 12:45pm.
A seminar styled ‘the media of Bangladesh and the tradition of journalism’ was held at the university’s senate building where the director general of Press Institute of Bangladesh and also teacher of the department Dulal Chandra Bishwas read out the keynote paper.
Eminent journalists of the country Mahbubul Alam, Riaz Uddin, Abed Khan, Naimul Islam Khan, AKM Rashid Un Nabi, Shyamol Datta were also present as panel speakers at the seminar.
-With New Age input
