Jagannath University (JnU) celebrated its tenth founding anniversary, Jagannath University Day 2014, in a festive mood yesterday.
Students and teachers and employees spontaneously attended the celebration programmes, wearing traditional dresses and holding colourful banners and festoons in hands.
University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman AK Azad Chowdhury and JnU Vice Chancellor Mizanur Rahman inaugurated the programme, hoisting the National Flag and the JnU Flag around 9am. Colourful balloons and pigeons were also released during the inauguration ceremony.
It was followed by a colourful rally that started from the university’s Shaheed Minar premises and ended at the Science Faculty ground after parading mains roads in the old part of the capital.
Marking the founding anniversary, the JnU authority had the construction of its first ever dormitory, Begum Fazilatunnessa Mujib Hall, inaugurated at Banglabazar area yesterday.
UGC chief Azad inaugurated the construction of the dormitory around 10.30am.
After this, a discussion was held at the university’s science building premises.
Attending there as chief guest, UGC chief Azad said the university has recently emerged as a role model among the new universities in the country.
A cultural function was then held on the campus marking the founding anniversary. Different noted singers, including Kiron Chandra Roy, Chandan Majumder, Fakir Alamgir and Laysa Ahmed Lisa, performed there.