A faction of the Jagannath University (JnU) unit of Chhatra Dal distributed awareness leaflets and held a student outreach programme on the Old Dhaka campus on Wednesday, 15 July 2026, calling for a greener and more environment-friendly university. According to Jagonews24, the programme ran under the slogan "Green campus, healthy environment, bright future" and was led by Md Mostafizur Rahman Rumi, second joint convener of JnU Chhatra Dal. The organisers said more than two hundred activists and general students took part.
What the student leader said
Rumi told the gathering that Bangladesh had been freed of fascism through a long movement, and claimed that in that spirit JnU Chhatra Dal had worked from the start for a student-friendly, safe and environment-friendly campus.
He said building a clean, green, safe and student-friendly campus was everyone's responsibility, and that an ideal place to learn depended on awareness, cooperation and responsible behaviour. Noting that the tree-planting season was under way, he said the group had tried, from its own position, to make students aware.
He urged students to work together for an environment-friendly green campus, and to make a green campus, a safe campus and students' rights their shared pledge.
A small campus by the Buriganga
Jagannath University stands at Sadarghat in the southern part of Dhaka, close to the Buriganga River. It began in 1858 as Dhaka Brahma School, was renamed Jagannath School by a local zamindar in 1872 and became Jagannath College in 1884. After more than a century as a college, it became a university when parliament passed the Jagannath University Act of 2005.
Its main campus in crowded Old Dhaka covers only 10 acres. According to Wikipedia, a new campus of about 200 acres is being built at Keraniganj. More trees and open space on the cramped urban campus were the core message of the leaflet drive.
During the national tree-planting campaign
The programme came during the national tree-planting drive. Earlier that month, on Thursday, 9 July 2026, Prime Minister Tarek Rahman opened the National Tree Plantation Campaign and Tree Fair, together with the World Environment Day environment fair, at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre in Dhaka, the national news agency BSS reported. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change organised the event under the theme "Let us adorn the country with trees, Bangladesh first".
BSS said the month-long national tree fair in Dhaka had 120 stalls, with 15-day fairs planned in seven divisional cities, 7-day fairs in 56 district towns and 3-day fairs in 29 upazilas. Dhaka Times reported that a master plan to plant 250 million trees over the next five years was presented at the launch.
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Sources: Jagonews24, Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS), Dhaka Times, Wikipedia
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