Sylhet Govt College students suffer in absence of dormitories

SYLHET, July 31: Located in the Tilagarh area on the Sylhet-Tamabil Highway, the Sylhet Government College is one of the reputed institutions in the district.

There are 6,550 students in the intermediate and degree classes. Besides, honours classes in five departments started in the 2017-2018 session.

Established in 1964, the college has a male dormitory and the other for female students on a four-storey building that was constructed years ago.

But unfortunately, both the dormitories had to be shut soon for narrow political reasons soon after their opening with allotted rooms to students just years ago. By this time the structures being unused for longer periods have already turned almost abandoned.

In the night following February 10, 2010, activists of a political group in a procession in a bid to occupying the male dormitory went to the building and vandalised 52 rooms.

As many as 157 students were residing there as allottees. They also set some of the rooms afire and took control of the dormitory. It compelled the authority to close the dormitory sine die. Since then it remained shut and there had been no move to reconstruct or to reopen the government establishments as yet.

However, the Education Engineering Department in 2010-2011 took up a scheme to reconstruct the building at a cost of taka half a million, but it couldn't be implemented as yet due to political obstacles, sources informed.

However, some repair works are now going on with a target to reopening the dormitory in months, an official said.

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