DHAKA, Sept 22, 2024 (BSS) - Classes and academic activities at Dhaka 
University (DU) resumed today after nearly three-and-a-half months due to 
unrest centering student-led movement. 

Classes started around 10am this morning with students gathering around their 
classrooms and faculty premises waiting eagerly to take part in the classes.

On the day, a one-minute silence was observed in memory of the martyrs
of the recent mass upsurge including students and ordinary people and pigeons 
were released as a symbol of peace around 9am on the premises of the 
university's Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury bhaban.
 
Led by DU Vice-Chancellor (VC) Professor Dr Niaz Ahmed Khan, DU Pro-VC 
(Administration) Prof Dr Sayema Haque Bidisha, Pro-VC (Academic) Dr Mamun 
Ahmed, Treasurer Dr Jahangir Alam Chowdhury and Proctor Saifuddin Ahmed also 
took part on the occasion.

Later, the VC visited the classrooms of different faculties and institutes 
and exchanged views with the students and teachers.

Students expressed the joy and excitement after returning to classes after 
around 112 days. 

"We have been waiting for the classes in the new political environment. 
Students are getting their legal seats in the dormitories and enjoying their 
days with friends through arranging different programmes," said Nahiyan 
Mejabin Himadri, a third-year student of DU International Business 
Department.

From now on, the campus will be vibrant with student's gatherings and the 
dormitories will be only for regular students, she hoped. 

Another student from the Mass Communication and Journalism Department said it 
is time for the university to get back its pride through bringing massive 
reformation in each sector.

Vacation in the university began on June 2 before Eid-ul-Azha. After the Eid 
holidays, class activities were scheduled to start on July 1.

However, public universities became inactive since July 1 as the teachers 
began a work abstention demanding the reinstatement of the previous pension 
scheme in place of the Prottoy scheme.

Later, the then Awami League government had shut down all educational 
institutions on July 16 amid an eruption of violence centering the student-
led mass upsurge.