Session jam feared at JU as demos halt classes in five depts

Demonstrations by teachers and students pressing for different demands have been going on in five departments at Jahangirnagar University, halting academic activities and creating fear of session jam among students.

Teachers and students of three departments -- computer science and engineering, geological sciences and environmental sciences -- have been demonstrating for almost two months regarding transfer of environmental sciences to a building that houses the other two.

The two departments yesterday staged a six-hour sit-in before the vice chancellor's office protesting the authorities' decision to allow the environmental sciences department to move into their building.

Meanwhile, all three teachers of journalism and media studies and some teachers of urban and regional planning departments have been boycotting classes for about a week now demanding resignation of the department chairpersons.

Sources said the demonstrating teachers met with VC Prof Farzana Islam and she assured them of reaching a solution accepted by all.