SAVAR, Jan 12, 2022 (BSS) - Jahangirnagar University (JU) today celebrated
its glorious 51st founding anniversary in a limited scale considering the
Covid-19 situation across the country.

  Marking the day, the JU authorities have taken various online-based
programmes with the aim of preventing the spread of Coronavirus.

  The daylong programme was inaugurated by hoisting the national as well as
JU flags and releasing balloons in front of the Business Studies faculty
around 10:30am.

  JU vice chancellor professor Farzana Islam inaugurated the event through a
videoconference in the morning.

  Later, Student Welfare and Counselling Centre and Teacher-Student Centre
(TSC) of the university separately organized virtual cultural programme.

  A puppet drama was also staged by Puppet Theater Research and Development
centre of Bangladesh around 1:00pm.

  Jahangirnagar University was founded on 20 August 1970. It formally began
its academic activities as a residential university on 12 January 1971, with
four departments, 21 teachers, 150 students, and three residential halls.