Hajee Danesh University: Independent in Education and Research

Hajee Danesh University, Dinajpur

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.

History of Hajee Mohammad Danesh (1900-1986):
Hajee Danesh was a peasant leader and politician. He was born in Sultanpur village in Dinajpur District. He obtained his MA in History from Aligarh Muslim University in 1931 and BL Degree in 1932. In the 1930s, Danesh became active in the communist organizations of Bengal, especially the Bengal provincial organization 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 landlords for landless peasants and share-croppers who sought a greater share of the yield, most of which was surrendered to the landlords. Danesh was one of the few Muslim communist leaders of the struggle, and worked to mobilize 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 Tebhagha 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. There are 9 faculties in HSTU with 47 departments. The Institute of Research and Training (IRT) has been established at the University for Advanced Research of Science.

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Account BenefitHalls of residence:
Male halls
1. Dormitory-1 (Sheikh Rasel Hall) and Sheikh Rasel Hall east (Extended Hall), 2. Dormitory-2 (Shaheed Rastrapati Ziaur Rahman Hall), 3. Dormitory-4 (Tajuddin Ahmed Hall), and 4. Bangabandhu Hall (under construction).

Female halls
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.

Sports and extracurricular activities
The university organizes sports and other extracurricular and recreational activities. It provides intramural and extramural programs. 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 accommodations so that patients suffering from contagious diseases may be cared for in isolation.
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