Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University (HSTU) bn, হাজী মোহাম্মদ দানেশ বিজ্ঞান ও প্রযুক্তি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) is a government-financed

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. Locally it is known as Hajee Danesh University.

About Hajee Mohammad Danesh

Hajee Mohammad Danesh (19001986) was leading political activist of South Asia during British colonialism. 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 sharecroppers 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 favour 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.

History

Shortly after the death in May 2009 of

M. A. Wazed Miah M. A. Wazed Miah ( bn, এম এ ওয়াজেদ মিয়া; 6 February 19429 May 2009) was a Bangladeshi physicist and the writer of a number of texts in physics and some political history books, a former Chairman of the Bangladesh ...

, a physicist and the husband of Prime Minister

Sheikh Hasina Sheikh Hasina Wazed (''née'' Sheikh Hasina ; ; bn, শেখ হাসিনা ওয়াজেদ, Shēkh Hasinā, , born 28 September 1947) is a Bangladeshi politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh since January 2 ...

, the regents of the university announced that the campus's third academic building, to be built later that year, would be named in his honour. On 16 April 2015, two students were killed during clashes between factions of the

Bangladesh Chhatra League The Bangladesh Chhatra League ( bn, বাংলাদেশ ছাত্রলীগ; translation: Bangladesh Students' League; BSL), formerly known as the East Pakistan Student League, often simply called the Chhatra League, is a students' p ...

, the student front of the ruling Awami League party. Two arrests were made in the case five years later. Vice-Chancellor

M. Abul Kashem M. Abul Kashem is a Bangladeshi academic and vice-chancellor of Teesta University. He is former vice-chancellor of Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University. Kashem was the head of the Department of Agricultural Extension Education ...

was the target of a number of protests during his tenure. On 5 November 2018, students staged a sit-in over his handling of multiple sexual harassment complaints against two teachers. Sixteen teachers went on strike in October 2020 alleging that Kashem had been out of his office and unreachable for seven months, leading to administrative paralysis. Kashem, whose term was due to expire at the end of January 2021, fled campus two weeks early after jobseekers, who had besieged his official residence and cut off power and water to it, stormed the building and held him and his wife captive for six hours.

List of vice-chancellors

* Prof. Md. Kamruzzaman ( present )

Campus

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 with contagious diseases may be cared for in isolation.

Halls of residence

Male halls

* Sheikh Rasel Hall * Sheikh Rasel Hall east(Extended Hall) * Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman Hall * Tajuddin Ahmed Hall * Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Hall * International Hall

Female halls

* Sheikh Fajilatunnesa Mujib Hall *Ivy Rahman Hall *Kobi Sufia Kamal Hall An extended area for foreign students.

Faculties

There are 9 faculties in HSTU with 45 departments: # Faculty of Postgraduate # Faculty of Agriculture #* Department of Agronomy(AGN) #* Department of Horticulture (HRT) #* Department of Soil Science (SSC) #* Department of Entomology (ENT) #* Department of Plant Pathology (PLP) #* Department of Genetics & Plant Breeding (GPB) #* Crop Physiology & Ecology (CPE) #* Department of Agricultural Extension(AEX) #* Department of Agricultural Chemistry (ACH) #* Department of Agroforestry And Environment (AGF) #* Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (BMB) # Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering #* Department of Computer Science & Engineering(CSE) #* Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) #* Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering (EEE) # Faculty of Business Studies: #* Department of Accounting (ACT) #* Department of Management Studies (MGT) #* Department of Marketing (MKT) #* Department of Finance and Banking (FIB) # Faculty of Fisheries #* Department of Fisheries Biology & Genetics (FBG) #* Department of Fisheries Management (FMG) #* Department of Fisheries Technology (FTL) #* Department of Aquaculture (AQC) # Faculty of Veterinary & Animal Science #* Department of Microbiology (MIC) #* Department of Pathology and Parasitology (PPS) #* Department of Dairy and Poultry Science (DPS) #* Department of Anatomy and Histology (ANH) #* Department of General Animal Science and Nutrition (ASN) #* Department of Genetics and Animal breeding (GAB) #* Department of Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics (MSO) #* Department of Physiology &Pharmacology (PPH) # Faculty of Engineering #* Department of Agricultural & Industrial Engineering (AIE) #* Department of Food Processing & Preservation (FPP) #* Department of Food Engineering & Technology (FET) #* Department of Food Science & Nutrition (FSN) #* Department of Architecture (ARC) #* Department of Civil Engineering (CE) #* Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) # Faculty of Science: #* Department of Chemistry (CHE) #* Department of Statistics (SAT) #* Department of Mathematics (MAT) #* Department of Physics (PHY) # Faculty of Social Science & Arts #* Department of English (ENG) #* Department of Economics (ECN) #* Department of Sociology (SOC) #* Department of Development Studies (DS)

Academics

Degrees offered

The university offers 23 undergraduate degrees under 9 faculties along with several postgraduate and doctoral courses.

Undergraduate degree programs

There are 1525 seats available for undergraduate admission.

Postgraduate degree programs

; Faculty of Postgraduate Studies: :* PhD :* MA :* MS :* MBA :* Evening MBA

Research

Three years of research under Md. Hasanuzzaman, Chairman of the Genetics and Plant Breeding Department, led in 2014 to two new varieties of sweet pumpkins. The varieties, named "Hajee" and "Danesh", are higher yielding, sweeter, and have less fiber than other varieties grown in Bangladesh.

Student life

Sports

The university organises sports and other extracurricular and recreational activities. It provides intramural and extramural programmes. *Sports Club *#HSTU FC(Football club) *#HSTU Cricket Club *#HSTU Blade Skating 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.

References

External links

Official Website

HSTU Students Affaaris & Advisory Division
(SAAD-HSTU) {{DEFAULTSORT:Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University Public universities of Bangladesh Educational institutions established in 2002 2002 establishments in Bangladesh Universities of science and technology in Bangladesh Organisations based in Dinajpur