Rajshahi University (RU) yesterday celebrated its 61st founding anniversary with great enthusiasm and festivity with a vow to establish a violence-free campus.
Shahriar Alam, state minister for foreign affairs, inaugurated the programme while RU Vice Chancellor Prof Muhammad Mizanuddin presided over the function.
Later, a colourful procession with banners and festoons was brought on the campus, which was decorated with colourful lights.
RU started its journey on July 6, 1953 with six departments under three faculties and with Prof Itrat Hossain Zuberi as the founder VC.
Now it has about 33,000 students and 1,200 teachers in 50 departments under nine faculties and has five research institutes.
At the programme, Rajshahi City Corporation Mayor Mosaddek Hossain Bulbul recalled Prof Shamsuzzoha who sacrificed his life in 1969 for the country.
Lawmaker Fazle Hossain Badsha and RU Registrar Prof Entajul Haque also spoke.