Govt urged to remove college from egunbagicha R/A
Saturday, 10 July 2010
FE Report
Residents of Segunbagicha in the capital Friday urged the government to remove signboard of the unapproved Kings College from the UCEP Building to protect its residential look.
Segunbagicha Society, an association for the residents of Segunbagicha area, made the demand at a press conference in the city.
The residents said Underprivileged Children's Educational Programmes (UCEP) leased the plot at 115 Segunbagicha from the government and ran a school for the distressed urban working children.
The lessee has recently started building a multi-storey building after obtaining approval from the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk).
"But the children of the school have recently been ousted from the building and the place has been rented out to Kings College," alleged M M Akash, professor of Economics at the University of Dhaka, at the press conference.
He said Rajuk has already sent a letter to the UCEP executive director asking not to change the approved design of the building.
In a letter in June this year, Dhaka District Administration also said the proposed college would create traffic jam in the area. The letter also urged the UCEP authorities not to set up the college.
In another letter, Deputy Police Commissioner (Traffic South) has requested the UCEP authorities not to go ahead with its plan for setting up college, saying such move would create traffic congestion in the area.
"Despite all these attempts advertisements for admission into HSC classes were published in two newspapers on behalf of the college on May 24 and June 4 this year although Dhaka Education Board has not approved any college named Kings College to be set up in Segunbagicha," said Mr Akash, a renowned economist.
Following the admission ads, Segunbagicha Society president A K M Jabbar Faruk and general secretary Akhtar Hossain Chowdhury filed a suit at the High Court, challenging the legality of such ads.
The High Court, on July 4, ruled why the ads would not be declared illegal and at the same time ordered the college authorities and the government to respond to the rule within 10 days.
"We hoped that the signboard of the college would be removed from the UCEP Building. But nothing has happened. Such activities are still going on in the name of the college," Mr Akash said.
Residents of Segunbagicha in the capital Friday urged the government to remove signboard of the unapproved Kings College from the UCEP Building to protect its residential look.
Segunbagicha Society, an association for the residents of Segunbagicha area, made the demand at a press conference in the city.
The residents said Underprivileged Children's Educational Programmes (UCEP) leased the plot at 115 Segunbagicha from the government and ran a school for the distressed urban working children.
The lessee has recently started building a multi-storey building after obtaining approval from the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk).
"But the children of the school have recently been ousted from the building and the place has been rented out to Kings College," alleged M M Akash, professor of Economics at the University of Dhaka, at the press conference.
He said Rajuk has already sent a letter to the UCEP executive director asking not to change the approved design of the building.
In a letter in June this year, Dhaka District Administration also said the proposed college would create traffic jam in the area. The letter also urged the UCEP authorities not to set up the college.
In another letter, Deputy Police Commissioner (Traffic South) has requested the UCEP authorities not to go ahead with its plan for setting up college, saying such move would create traffic congestion in the area.
"Despite all these attempts advertisements for admission into HSC classes were published in two newspapers on behalf of the college on May 24 and June 4 this year although Dhaka Education Board has not approved any college named Kings College to be set up in Segunbagicha," said Mr Akash, a renowned economist.
Following the admission ads, Segunbagicha Society president A K M Jabbar Faruk and general secretary Akhtar Hossain Chowdhury filed a suit at the High Court, challenging the legality of such ads.
The High Court, on July 4, ruled why the ads would not be declared illegal and at the same time ordered the college authorities and the government to respond to the rule within 10 days.
"We hoped that the signboard of the college would be removed from the UCEP Building. But nothing has happened. Such activities are still going on in the name of the college," Mr Akash said.