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BRUR-DEPT-ANNIVERSARY (with picture)
Academics laud women empowerment in Bangladesh
RANGPUR, Jan 21, 2019 (BSS) – Academics at a function held at Begum Rokeya
University, Rangpur (BRUR) today highly lauded the incredible success
achieved in the field of women empowerment in Bangladesh in last 10 years.
“Bangladesh has already improved all indexes related to development and
empowerment of women in every sector of the society under the leadership of
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina,” said Vice-chancellor (VC) of BRUR Professor Dr
Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah.
The VC said this at the function arranged in celebration of the seventh
founding anniversary of the Department of Women and Gender Studies of the
university at its Kobi Heyat Mamud Bhaban on the campus as the chief guest.
He also inaugurated the observance programmes by cutting a cake with
teachers and students of the department.
With Head of the Department of Women and Gender Studies of BRUR Delwar
Hossain in the chair, the programme was addressed, among others, by Assistant
Professors of the department Humayun Kabeer, Meer Tamanna Siddika and Kuntola
Chowdhury and Lecturer of the Department of English Imrana Bari.
The speakers said the teachers and students of the Department of Women and
Gender Studies of BRUR have set up a glaring example for establishing
congenial academic atmosphere in their department.
They hoped that students of the department would successfully contribute to
the national development in empowering women during their professional
careers.
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