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Former and current students, teachers and officials of Jahangirnagar University (JU) on Wednesday celebrated the 51st founding anniversary in a limited scale considering the Covid-19 situation across the country.
Marking the day, the JU authorities have taken various online-based programs with the aim of preventing the spread of coronavirus.
The daylong program was inaugurated by hoisting the national as well as JU flags and releasing balloons in front of the Business Studies faculty around 10:30am.
Vice Chancellor Professor Farzana Islam inaugurated the event through a videoconference in the morning.
Later, Student Welfare and Counseling Centre and Teacher-Student Centre (TSC) of the university separately organized virtual cultural programs.
A puppet drama was also staged by Puppet Theater Research and Development centre of Bangladesh around 1pm.
The university was founded near Savar, on the outskirts of the capital on August 20, 1970.
It formally began its academic activities as a residential university on January 12, 1971, with four departments, 21 teachers,