DHAKA, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS) - Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD)-backed 'Abid-Hamim-Mayed Parishad' today unveiled a 10-point manifesto with 65 pledges ahead of the Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) election.

The panel's vice-president candidate, Abidul Islam Khan, read out the manifesto at a programme held in front of the Arts Building on the Dhaka University campus at noon.

The manifesto emphasized prioritizing education and research while aiming to build a modern, safe, inclusive, and student-friendly campus.

The panel's pledges include ensuring a secure environment and healthcare for female students, providing quality medical services with health insurance, modernizing curriculum and research, introducing regulated transport with shuttle services, ensuring harassment-free administrative services, expanding student loans and employment opportunities, promoting sports and cultural activities, strengthening digital facilities with cyber security, protecting the environment and establishing an effective DUCSU.

Special initiatives for female students include setting up healthcare units in every hall, appointing female doctors at the university medical center, removing restricted entry hours in halls and ensuring freedom of dress.

The manifesto also promises to eliminate the "Guestroom-Gono Room" culture, end forced political programmes and repression and free the campus from terrorism and illegal occupation.

The panel has pledged to construct new residential halls to ensure "one seat and one study table" for each student from the time of admission, along with increasing subsidies and monitoring food quality in canteens and cafeterias.

Modernization of the university medical center is another key commitment, with round-the-clock doctors, ambulance services, and free supply of essential medicines.

Other measures include regular review and updating of course curricula, opportunities for credit transfer, digitization of the central library, opening new bus routes, offering merit-based scholarships and student loans, organizing cultural and sports programs, introducing digital skills training, and developing an animal-friendly campus.

To enhance Dhaka University's global profile, the panel also pledged to establish funds to support students' participation in Olympiads, symposiums, seminars, and academic exchange programs abroad.

The DUCSU election is scheduled for September 9, with the campaign currently underway in full swing.