BSS-35 Govt plans to give Shahbagh-DMCH areas a new look: PM

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Govt plans to give Shahbagh-DMCH areas a new look: PM

DHAKA, Sept 20, 2019 (BSS) – The entire areas from city’s Shahbagh to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) is going to get an aesthetic look as the government plans to construct major buildings and structures there in eye-catching designs.

“The four large structures — the National Museum, the Public Library, the Teacher-Student Centre (TSC) of Dhaka University and the Dhaka Medical College Hospital – will be constructed anew soon to give the area a different look,” Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Thursday night.

The prime minister disclosed the government’s decision when a delegation of Bangladesh Chhatra League called on her at her official Ganabhaban residence here, PM’s Deputy Press Secretary Hasan Jahid Tusher said today.

Acting president of BCL Al Nahiyan Khan Joy and acting general secretary Lekhak Bhattacharya led the 23-member team.

About development of TSC, the prime minister said there were only 4,000-5,000 students of the university when the TSC was constructed in 1960s. But the number of its students and teachers is now over 40,000, who require large space and facilities.

Besides, she said, TSC auditorium and cafeteria are decades-old establishments.

Sheikh Hasina said the government will reconstruct the TSC so that the TSC complex can accommodate huge number of teachers and students, and offices of various cultural and socio-political bodies.

“An international standard auditorium will also be built in the TSC”, she said, adding a plan has already been prepared to develop the TSC complex.

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