Jahangirnagar University (JU) celebrated its glorious 49th founding anniversary on Sunday amid enthusiasm and festivity.
Marking the day, the university wore a festive look as former and current students, employees, officers and teachers of the university joined the day long colourful programme with banners, balloons and festoons.
JU Vice Chancellor (VC) Professor Farzana Islam inaugurated the programme by releasing balloons and hoisting the national flag as the chief guest while Pro-VC (Administration) Professor Amir Hossain and Pro- VC (Education) Professor Nurul Alam hoisted the university flag in front of the Business Studies Faculty this morning.
Professor Farzana Islam in her inaugural speech greeted university teachers, students, officers, employees and the present and former students of the University.
Treasurer of the university Professor Sheikh Md Monzurul Huq, Acting Proctor A S M Firoj Ul Hasan and Acting Registrar Rahima Kaneez were present at the inaugural session.
Later, JU VC led the colourful procession which was brought out from the Business Studies faculty premises and ended at Selim Al Deen Mukta Mancha.
The daylong programme included puppet show, cultural function and staging of drama, organized by Student Welfare and Counseling Centre and Teacher-Student Centre of the university.
JU was founded on 20 August, 1970 but formally began its academic activities as a residential university on 12 January, 1971, with four departments, 21 teachers, 150 students, and three residential halls.
