Professor Dr Harunor Rashid Khan, Vice Chancellor of Barisal University, has been freed after 12 hours confinement by the students.
He was released from confinement at 11:30pm Wednesday after giving written assurances with time-frame about fulfilling 13-point demand of the agitating students of the university.
Prof Shafiul Alam, president of BU Teachers’ Association confirming the report said classes and regular activities at BU temporary and permanent campuses resumed normally on Thursday.
Agitation programmes will resume again if the assurances would not be fulfilled within the announced time frame, said Faisal Khan, a third year hounours student of Sociology Department and a leading activist of the BU student movement.
In the written assurances, the BU VC assured that more three departments would be shifted from temporary to permanent campus within December 31, 2014.
Besides, sufficient spaces for class rooms, seminar rooms, library and reading rooms, laboratory facilities with computers, projectors wi-fi internet coverage and sufficient number of books, materials and equipments for each of the 16 departments would be ensured within June 30, 2015.
The funds collected from the students by the departments against different charges would be returned from university central funds to the concerned departmental funds after auditing. No charge would be collected without providing service.
Details about the received and expected funds under separate heads and sectors would be published in the proposed budget of each department in every fiscal, the VC assured.
Passenger-shed at that transport stoppages would be completed within July 15 and construction of boundary wall surrounding the permanent campus would be started within December 2014, the VC stated in his statement.
Construction of one male and one female students’ halls would also be ended within December 31, 2014.
Schedule for the election of student union would be announced after residential students started living in the halls, the VC assured in written.
Meanwhile, construction of speed breakers on the highway crossing on BU permanent campus has already been completed.
Tanvir Qaiser, Barisal University Teachers' Association secretary told the Dhaka Tribune that they will announce their decision about their 9-point demand after holding its meeting.