Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science & Technology University

Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University (HSTU) Bengali: হাজী মোহাম্মদ দানেশ বিজ্ঞান ও প্রযুক্তি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) is a government-financed public university of Bangladesh. Locally it is known as Hajee Danesh University.

Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University
হাজী মোহাম্মদ দানেশ বিজ্ঞান ও প্রযুক্তি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়,দিনাজপুর
Former names
Agricultural Extension Training Institute (1979), Hajee Mohammad Danesh Agricultural College (1988)
TypePublic
Established1979 (1979) as College September 11, 1999 (1999-09-11) as University
AffiliationUniversity Grants Commission
ChancellorPresident Abdul Hamid
Vice-ChancellorMd. Kamruzzaman
Academic staff
309
Students11,547
Location
Dinajpur
,
Rangpur
,
Bangladesh

25.6980°N 88.6550°E / 25.6980; 88.6550
CampusRural, 85 acres
Websitehstu.ac.bd
[1][2][3]

About Hajee Mohammad Danesh

Hajee Mohammad Danesh (1900–1986) was leading political activist of South Asia during British colonialism.[4] 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
Dr. M A Wazed Building

Shortly after the death in May 2009 of M. A. Wazed Miah, a physicist and the husband of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, 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.[5]

On 16 April 2015, two students were killed during clashes between factions of the Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student front of the ruling Awami League party. Two arrests were made in the case five years later.[6]

Vice-Chancellor M. Abul Kashem 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.[7] 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.[8] 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.[9]

List of vice-chancellors
  • Prof. Md. Kamruzzaman ( present )

Campus
The campus

Library
Library building

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
Dormitory 2

Male halls
  • Sheikh Russel 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
Side view of Agriculture building
One of the academic buildings 3Veterinary Building

There are 9 faculties in HSTU with 45 departments:

  1. Faculty of Postgraduate
  2. Faculty of Agriculture
    • Department of Agronomy (AGN)
    • Department of Horticulture (HRT)
    • Department of Soil Science (SC)
    • Department of Entomology (ENT)
    • Department of Plant Pathology (PLP)
    • Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding (GPB)
    • Department of Crop Physiology and Ecology (CPE)
    • Department of Agricultural Extension (AEX)
    • Department of Agricultural Chemistry (ACH)
    • Department of Agroforestry and Environment (AGF)
    • Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB)
  3. Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering
    • Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)
    • Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE)
    • Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE)
  4. Faculty of Business Studies:
    • Department of Accounting (ACT)
    • Department of Management Studies (MGT)
    • Department of Marketing (MKT)
    • Department of Finance and Banking (FIB)
  5. Faculty of Fisheries
    • Department of Fisheries Biology and Genetics (FBG)
    • Department of Fisheries Management (FMG)
    • Department of Fisheries Technology (FTL)
    • Department of Aquaculture (AQC)
  6. 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 (GASN)
    • Department of Genetics and Animal Breeding (GAB)
    • Department of Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics (MSO)
    • Department of Physiology and Pharmacology (PPH)
  7. Faculty of Engineering
    • Department of Agricultural and Industrial Engineering (AIE)
    • Department of Food Processing and Preservation (FPP)
    • Department of Food Engineering and Technology (FET)
    • Department of Food Science and Nutrition (FSN)
    • Department of Architecture (ARCH)
    • Department of Civil Engineering (CE)
    • Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME)
  8. Faculty of Science:
    • Department of Chemistry (CHE)
    • Department of Statistics (STAT)
    • Department of Mathematics (MAT)
    • Department of Physics (PHY)
  9. 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
A gate of the university

There are 1525 seats available for undergraduate admission.[10]

Undergraduate degrees offered by HSTU
Faculty Subject Degree Seat
Faculty of Agriculture Agriculture B.Sc.(Hons.) 300
Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering Computer Science and Engineering B.Sc.(Engineering) 50
Electronics and Communication Engineering B.Sc.(Engineering) 50
Electrical and Electronic Engineering B.Sc.(Engineering) 50
Faculty of Business Studies Accounting BBA 50
Marketing BBA 50
Management BBA 50
Finance & Banking BBA 50
Faculty of Fisheries Fisheries B.Sc.(Hons.) 80
Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Science Veterinary medicine DVM 80
Faculty of Engineering Food and Process Engineering B.Sc. 50
Agricultural Engineering B.Sc. 55
Architecture B.Arch. 25
Civil Engineering B.Sc. 40
Mechanical Engineering B.Sc. 40
Faculty of Science Physics B.Sc.(Hons.) 65
Chemistry B.Sc.(Hons.) 65
Mathematics B.Sc.(Hons.) 70
Statistics B.Sc.(Hons.) 70
Faculty of Social Science & Humanities English BA 70
Economics BSS 70
Sociology BSS 60
Development Studies BSS 35

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.[11]

Student life
Saheed Minar at HSTU

Sports

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

  • Sports Club
    1. HSTU FC(Football club)
    2. HSTU Cricket Club
    3. 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.

Ragging

HSTU has implemented policies to address the issue of ragging, however, the effectiveness of these policies in preventing incidents of ragging is questionable. The university has established anti-ragging committees at all levels and a hotline number for students to report incidents, however, the actual enforcement of these policies may be lacking. This has resulted in a continuation of ragging within the university, indicating that the university's efforts to prevent ragging may not be fully effective.

See also

References
  1. "Overview". HSTU.
  2. "Vice Chancellor's Message". HSTU.
  3. "HSTU at a glance". HSTU.
  4. Mahfuzur Rahman Sarker (2012), "Danesh, Haji Mohammad", in Sirajul Islam and Ahmed A. Jamal (ed.), Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.), Asiatic Society of Bangladesh
  5. "HSTU bldg to be named after Dr Wazed". The Daily Star. 17 May 2009.
  6. Hossain, Faruk (11 June 2020). "HSTU double murder: Two accused arrested in Dinajpur". Dhaka Tribune.
  7. Hossain, Md Faruk (6 November 2018). "#MeToo: protest by HSTU teachers, students against sexual harassment". Dhaka Tribune.
  8. "16 Hajee Danesh university teachers go on work abstention - Education". The Daily Observer. 8 October 2020.
  9. "VC, wife leave HSTU campus in the dark". The Daily Star. 14 January 2021.
  10. "Admission". HSTU.
  11. Karmaker, Kongkon (13 August 2014). "Hajee Danesh University Scientists develop new pumpkin varieties". The Daily Star.
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