RU TSCC remains dysfunctional for years

RU Correspondent RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Mar 29: Due to Inadequate infrastructural facilities, shortage of manpower and fund crisis the Teachers-Students Cultural Centre (TSCC) of the Rajshahi University (RU) has been going without any activities for years. The present condition of TSCC is largely due to the lethargic cultural practices within university compared to Dhaka University's TSCC, said the cultural workers of different organisation of RU. RU TSCC is now conducting its present activities with a total of 11 officials, including the director and class III & IV employees, in a dilapidated building that was set up in 2006, sources said. RU authority took its decision to set up a cultural centre that started the construction of the present TSCC building in 2005 and it was finished in 2006 at a cost of Tk 12.5 million, said TSCC administrator Dr. Babu Sujit Kumar. Another source said the present TSCC building, built during the last BNP-led government. Then this building became dilapidated soon after its construction, as the proposed design had not been followed and previous university authorities resorted to huge irregularities over its construction. Four years ago, after full construction of the building a portion of the building had fallen apart. RU engineering department sources said that although the university authorities had made no formal decision to reconstruct the building, there was a proposal for restructuring it. Dr Hasan Raja, president of Sundaram Abrithi Sangsad, said that as a decision making body for allocating budget of the cultural organisations TSCC failed to work properly. As a result the cultural organisations suffer greatly.