Authorities of Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College have announced that the college would remain shut till March 10.
The authorities took the decision following a recent collapse of some parts of a building of the hostel for female students.
All the resident students have been asked to leave the hostel within Tuesday afternoon.
Dr Bhaskar Saha, principal of the college, said the decision was taken in a meeting of the academic council to ensure safety and security of the students.
Alternative residential arrangements for 75 final-year girl-examinees were made, he said.
Reopening of the college would be decided after ending of piling works and taking views of the construction experts and engineers to ensure safe residency of the girl students in the old hostel, he added.
Some parts of the hostel collapsed due to vibration created because of piling work of an under-construction building on the campus, said sources in the medical college.
During a recent visit to the college, it was found that the construction work of a new five-storied building was going on adjacent to the existing hostel.
Total piling works of 225 pillars at the depth of 65 feet each has begun and piling works of 136 pillars has already been done, construction worker said.
In the past few days, residents of the existing hostel were complaining of unusual vibration on the floor of the building during the piling works, they said.
Some scratches were found on the walls and roof of the hostel. Plasters fell down from different parts of the building, the college's female resident students said.
Against this backdrop, college authorities asked the construction company to stop the erection of piling immediately and discussed the matter with the engineers on February 7.
But the engineers said the building of the existing building has become risk-prone not because of their piling work.
However, some part of a pillar of the old hostel again fell down spreading panic among the residing students in the hostel on Tuesday morning.
The girl students of the hostel started leaving the college after 2pm.
Rituporna Hoimontika, a resident of the hostel, said: “We informed the college authorities about unusual vibration in the rooms and scratches on the roofs and walls of the hostel.”
“It created panic among us since starting of the piling works for new hostel about three months ago.”
Talking to the Dhaka Tribune, some students who are hailing from distant districts alleged that the college authorities did took into consideration theirs problems as they were facing problems to go their homes due to blockade and hartal enforced by BNP-led 20-party alliance.
