Bangladesh News

The authorities of Dhaka University (DU) yesterday felled two more full-grown trees to make room for a new dormitory building for Jagannath Hall.

The five-storey building, to be constructed in between the hall pond and Udayan High School compound, is expected to accommodate around a thousand students. The new facility would have the capacity to be extended upto ten stories.

The authorities have previously chopped down quite a good number of full-grown trees for the construction project.

A number of resident students of the hall and Bangladesh Paribesh Andolan (Bapa) have expressed dissatisfaction over the felling of the trees, saying that the construction of the building could have been done without felling the trees.

Earlier in June, a Bapa team during a meeting with the DU authorities had urged them to undertake a minor deviation in the ’service centre’ section of the proposed design for saving the trees.

The team also urged the authorities to seek expert assistance from Bangladesh Architecture Sangsad to save as many old trees as possible during the construction of the dorm.