Mohammad Al Faris
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The century-old Dhaka University has plenty of problems: shortage of dormitory rooms for students, houses for teachers, poor water supply and waste management. Add to the list the parking woes.
Cars, motorcycles and cycles, parked on the road in front of the Arts Building and around it, are a common scenario. For lack of officially designated spaces many are forced to park their vehicles haphazardly.
"Usually, the university administration does not permit us to park here but exceptions are made in case of special guests and visitors," car driver Abu Hanif, who parked his car in front of Arts Building, said.
Asked about car parking at Shadow, a corridor beside Arts Building where a space is allotted for parking, Abu Hanif said the space is too small to accommodate the increasing number of vehicles.
Another driver, Saiff Kader said, "It is a suitable space for us to park here. But the university administration does not allow us to stay here for long."
"Sometimes they file complaints too", he added.
However, it is to be mentioned that only 15 cars can be parked at the Shadow at a time and it is the only parking zone of the Arts faculty. Besides, Shadow is reserved for teachers' vehicles. And there is no parking zone for students' and guardians' vehicles.
On the other hand, the parking facilities at Business Studies faculty and Social Sciences faculty, Institute of Business Administration, Science faculty are a bit different.
Business faculty has two parking lots- one is for the teachers and another for students. Most of the time, in business faculty, vehicles are seen parked systematically.
Meanwhile, the Social Sciences faculty has its parking lot in its basement but the facilities are not sufficient.
Besides, University's vehicles for carrying students, teachers and the staff can be seen parked on the road on Mall Chattor and on the northern side of Jagannath Hall playground.
Due lack of proper parking facilities, parking anywhere in the campus has become a problem not only seen in the academic parts of the campus but also in dormitories and in the central library too.
Cycles and motorcycles are seen parked at hall corridors and passages as there is no allocated space for parking.
Besides, the front side of libraries is jammed with students' cycles and motorcycles.
Sometimes it seems that the whole campus is a parking zone as you can see cars, motorcycles and buses are parked everywhere in the campus.
I never saw the front side of the Teacher-Student Centre (TSC) area empty. I don't know when it turned into a rickshaw-stand
Students cannot move easily on the campus roads due unauthorized parking and excessive movement of vehicles of outsiders, alleged students.
