Women leader on Friday demanded that the Eden Girls' College should be given autonomy and be upgraded to a fully-fledged university named after Pritilata Waddedar.
They said this at a discussion organised by Samajtantrik Mahila Forum marking the birth centenary of Pritalata, an anti-British revolutionary from Bengal, at the Teacher-Student Centre in Dhaka University. Pritilata's birth anniversary fell on May 5.
The organisation put fourth their four-point demands in programme. The demands include upgrade of the college into a university named after Pritilata, installation of a statue of Pritilata in front of the college, and the naming of the road stretch from Azimpur to Nilkhet after Pritalata.
The discussion was presided over by the organisation's Dhaka division president Sultana Akhter Rubi.
Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal leader Bazlur Rashid Firoz, Jahangirnagar University teacher Nasim Akhter Hossain, and Samajtantrik Mahila Forum's general secretary Syeda Parvin Akhter spoke.
Source: New Age
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