Jessore Medical College is about to complete the construction of its own building but it cannot shift there soon in the absence of an approach road.
The college came into being in 2010. Since its did not have its own building, it started its operations at the 250-bed general hospital. Students and teachers have ever since been suffering from crises of class rooms and others.
The building, of which about-to-be-complete construction could have been a piece of happy news to the suffering students, failed to lift their spirits as they have learnt that they could not shift there soon as the approach road has not been constructed yet.
Students said they could not study well at the library room because it was very small and students had to sit huddled there. Besides, there were not enough class rooms here, which is a batch of students had to sit idle a long time when scheduled classes of other batches take place.
Assistant Professor of orthopaedics deaprtment Abdur Rouf said they were failing to take adequate number of classes because there not enough class rooms here.
Public Works Department Sub-Divisional Engineer SM Golam Kader told the Dhaka Tribune that the land on which the road was supposed to be constructed falls under the jurisdiction of the deputy commissioner.
That is why, the Health Ministry would not have the road constructed by the public works department because they could have it constructed by the Local Government and Engineering Department free of cost, he said.
Sub-Divisional Engineer Kader however said the approach road could be constructed by the Public Works Department within six months next if the Health Ministry wanted it so, pointing out that the LGED had been failed to have the approach road project for four years.
