About 175 female students have to share a room at Rajshahi University as the authorities failed to provide them with seats in the halls, leaving them to lead a life which, in no way, is suitable for academic activities.
Not getting a seat in the university dormitories, 1,500 female students are living in 15 mass rooms of five female halls.
In the mass room at Taposi Rabeya Hall, 175 female students are living and no mass room has students less than 75.
Rahamatunnisa Hall has one, Munnujan Hall two, Khaleda Zia Hall six and Begum Rokeya Hall has five such mass rooms.
These rooms were mainly TV room or recreation room but they were later used to accommodate the students, particularly the newcomers.
The female dormitories have 2,991 seats for 7,500 students.
Students said they were leading a miserable life in the mass rooms.
'If you just see the condition of the room, you would not say it is a room meant for the female students,' said a student, adding they had a very small space to sleep and study.
They students said they failed to concentrate on their study during their examination time as they lived in a room where other students watched TV and passed their recreational time.
Khadija Khanam, a resident of Khaleda Zia Hall, told New Age that 76 students are sharing the mass room where she lives.
'It is difficult to concentrate on study in such a room. Two or three students share a bed in our room,' she said.
Asura Khatun, a student of Begum Rokeya Hall, said, 'The authorities should take immediate measures to end our sufferings.'
The university pro-vice-chancellor Professor Mohammad Nurullah admitted the seat crisis but said it is not possible for the authorities to manage seat for every student.
The students are opting for the boarding houses in the adjacent areas of the university campus because of the accommodation crisis in the university halls.
'We cannot build new halls as we do not have the fund,' said Professor Nurullah, adding that the university had applied to the University Grants Commission for funds to build new halls.
Source : New Age
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