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TSC-NEW-BUILDING (WITH PICTURE)
TSC to be reshaped with new unique architectural structure
By Md. Mahdi-Al-Muhtasim Nibir
DHAKA, Oct 15, 2018 (BSS) – Dhaka University Teacher-Student Center (TSC),
popularly known as social and cultural heart of the campus, is going to have
a modern look as a fashionable building with unique architectural grandeur
will be erected inside the center keeping up its Greek architectural
heritage.
Historically prominent for rendering services to students and teachers as
well as to other communities of the society, the TSC will have the five-
storey building with all latest facilities on the site of its swimming poll
not now in use.
The would be architecturally unique structure is expected to prompt the
teachers and students of the university to believe that the TSC will regain
its past glory as the country’s most oldest university will be reverberated
with renewed social and cultural feat.
Came into being in 1961, the TSC is an all-campus activity centre designed
for relaxation and guidance and resounded by the teachers, students of
different halls, activities of a socio-cultural organizations with various
programmes of educational, co-curricular and entertainments.
The TSC is now devoid of its former film lab, audio centre and swimming
pool and the other existing facilities are also in shambles. The new project
of establishing the multi-storey building with improved facilities at the
place of abandoned swimming pool will be seen as an inspiration for forward-
looking vision for around 40,000 students of DU.
The new building will accommodate sufficient rehearsal rooms for cultural
programmes, two modern auditoriums, toilets, a cafeteria, indoor games rooms,
a library, a reading room, art and music rooms, bookshops, underground car
parking and office rooms for TSC-based socio-cultural organizations,” TSC
director AMM Mohiuzzaman Chowdhury told BSS.
Talking to BSS correspondent, general students expressed their joy at
hearing the news of establishment of a new complex on TSC premises.
“In general sense it is appreciable because organizations of DU will get
rooms and enough spaces. Students will get guidance, relaxation and
counseling in a wider form from the concerned places there. The new structure
will help increase presence of students on TSC premises,” Mahmuda Kabir, a
third-year student of Department of Genetic Engineering and Bio-Technology
told BSS.
The beautiful TSC complex designed by Greek architect Konstantinos
Doxiadis, was established with the objective of facilitating cultural and
recreational activities of the teachers and students of DU.
The leaders and activists of TSC-based socio-cultural organisations are
delighted to hear the news of a new establishment and welcomed the decision.
“This kind of infrastructural development is needed as it is the demand of
time. We have scarcity of accommodation for rehearsal and other activities.
We demand the university authority to take necessary steps to set up the new
building as soon as possible,” Ragib Rahman, president of Dhaka University
Cultural Society told the national news agency.
Applauding the initiative, Sanwarul Haque Sony, president of Dhaka
University Drama Troupe said, “I think such an establishment will add a new
glory to our cultural activities. But the historical establishments should be
protected.”
Director of DU Planning and Development Office Jibon K Mishra said that
under the Development Project Proposal (DPP), the university has made a
design of the building marking the centenary of DU and sent it to the
University Grants Commission (UGC) in August last. The UGC has already
approved the plan, he added.
DU Pro-Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Muhammad Samad said the new
establishment will keep intact the aesthetic beauty of TSC premises.
“At first, a decision was taken to establish a 20-storey building. But we
have taken to set up a 5-storey complex instead as prominent architects
suggested that a high-rise building will erase the scenic beauty of the Greek
architectures of TSC,” he told BSS.
Recalling his participation in different cultural movements, Prof Samad,
also president of Jatiya Kabita Parishad, said once the TSC was the
birthplace of the country’s different cultural movements.
He expressed the hope that after the completion of the new building, the
TSC will regain its glory to boost up the cultural practices imbued with the
spirit of Liberation War.
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