Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science & Technology University

Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University (HSTU)
হাজী মোহাম্মদ দানেশ বিজ্ঞান ও প্রযুক্তি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়
Type Public, coeducational
Established 1979 (University Started 11 September 1999)
Chancellor Abdul Hamid, Honorable President
Vice-Chancellor Professor Md. Ruhul Amin
Dean 9
Academic staff
 400
Students 9500
Location Dinajpur,  Bangladesh
Campus Rural 130 acres
Affiliations University Grants Commission
Website hstu.ac.bd

Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University (HSTU) is a government-financed public university of Bangladesh. Locally it is known as Hajee Danesh University. It is situated between about 10 miles from Dinajpur city at a place known as Basherhat. A sports school named BKSP (Dinajpur) which was also established by the government of Bangladesh is situated beside the campus.

In 2015 more than 100 foreign students come from five countries.

Hajee Mohammad Danesh

Hajee Mohammad Danesh (1900–1986) was a peasant leader and politician.[1] He was born in Sultanpur village in Dinajpur District. He obtained his M.A. in History from Aligarh Muslim University in 1931 and B.L. degree in 1932. In the 1930s, Danesh became active in the communist organisations of Bengal, especially the Bengal provincial organisation of the Communist Party of India. He was arrested twice in 1938 by the government of Bengal for his participation in the Tebhaga movement, an agitation in northern Bengal against zamindars landlords for landless peasants and share-croppers who sought a greater share of the yield, most of which was surrendered to the zamindars. Danesh was one of the few Muslim communist leaders of the struggle, and worked to mobilise the Muslim peasantry in favor of the movement. In 1945, he joined the All India Muslim League, but was later expelled for his participation in the continuing Tebagha movement, and re-arrested by the Bengal government in 1946.After the partition of India and Bengal in 1947, Danesh remained in his home district of Dinajpur, which fell in Muslim-majority East Bengal, which became part of the newly created Muslim state of Pakistan. He died in Dhaka on 28 June 1986.

Academics

The university offers 24 under-graduate degrees under 9 faculties along with several post-graduate and doctoral courses. These are

1. Faculty of Postgraduate Studies

2. Faculty of Engineering

Faculty Of Engineering

3. Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering

4.Faculty of Business Studies

5.Faculty of Agriculture

6.Faculty of Fisheres

7.Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Science

8.Faculty of Science

9.Faculty of Arts & Social Science

Administrative Building,HSTU,Dinajpur.
Side view of administrative building
Tajuddin Ahmed Hall,HSTU,Dinajpur
One of the academic buildings
Saheed Minar at HSTU
Inner side of Administrative building
The campus
Map of Bangladesh in the campus
A gate of the university
Library building
Dormitory 2

Faculties

There are 9 faculties in HSTU with 47 departments:

Faculty of Engineering:

Professor T. M. T. Iqbal, Department of Horticulture

Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering:

Faculty of Business Studies:

Faculty of Agriculture:

Faculty of Fisheries:

Faculty of Veterinary & Animal Science:

Faculty of Science

Faculty Of Arts & Social Science

Institute

Science For advanced RESEARCH the Institute of Research and Training (IRT) has been established.

Halls of residence

1. Dormitory -1 (Shekh Rasel Hall) Shekh Rasel Hall east(Extended Hall) 2. Dormitory -2 (Shaheed Rastrapati Ziaur Rahman Hall) 3. Dormitory -4 (Tajuddin Ahmed Hall) 4.Bangabondhu Hall(under construction)

1.Dormitory -3(Shekh Fajilatunnesa Mujib Hall) Ladies Hall Extension -1(Ivy Rahman Hall) Ladies Hall Extension -2(Pritilota Hall) An extended area for foreign students.

Student organizations

Students at HSTU are involved in extra-curricular activities. The student organizations are:

Sports and extracurricular activities

The university organizes sports and other extracurricular and recreational activities. It provides intramural and extramural programmes.

Internal and external programmes (games and sports)

The directorate organizes and conducts interdepartmental and inter-hall tournaments, individual hall athletics, university athletics, and inter-university games and sports. Students participate in national championships in games and sports for which training and coaching are offered.

Library

The university Library contains a collection of more than 25,000 volumes, including bound volumes of periodicals. It subscribes to over 50 foreign journals. A complete automation of the system is in the process. The Confined Section of the library contains rare books.

Medical centre

The medical centre offers free medical service to students, teachers, staff and family members of the teachers and staff. The centre provides service round-the-clock, seven-days-a-week, with four doctors with ambulance facility. The centre has 12 bed accommodation so that patients suffering from contagious diseases may be cared for in isolation.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Mahfuzur Rahman Sarker (2012), "Danesh, Haji Mohammad", in Sirajul Islam and Ahmed A. Jamal, Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.), Asiatic Society of Bangladesh

External links

Coordinates: 25°41′49″N 88°39′06″E / 25.6970°N 88.6517°E / 25.6970; 88.6517

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