A new award titled ‘Ronoda Prasad Roy Award of Academic Excellence’ has been introduced at the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Applied Mathematics of Dhaka University (DU). Vice-Chancellor in-charge and Treasurer of North South University Dr. Gour Gobinda Goswami handed over a cheque for Tk. 24 lac and 44 thousand to DU Treasurer Prof. Dr. Md. Kamal Uddin today (Wednesday), October 28, 2015 at the Vice-Chancellor’s office to introduce the award. A donor who desires not to be identified has donated money to introduce this award in memory of late Ronoda Prasad Roy. It may be mentioned that the donor is a Muslim.

Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University Prof. Dr. AAMS Arefin Siddique, Acting Dean of the Faculty of Science Dr. M. Arshad Momen, Chairman of the Department of Mathematics Prof Dr. Amulya Chandro Mandal. Chairman of the Department of Applied Mathematics Prof. Dr. Md. Abdus Samad, Provost of the Jagannath Hall     Dr. Asim Sarkar and other faculty members were present on this occasion.

Out of the income of this donation, every year two meritorious students from the Hindu community who will secure the highest CGPA in BS final examinations from the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Applied Mathematics respectively of DU will be awarded ‘Ronoda Prasad Roy Award of Academic Excellence.’

Vice-Chancellor Prof. Dr. Arefin Siddique thanked the donor for introducing this award at Dhaka University and hoped that the students would be highly benefited and encouraged from this donation. He urged the rich people of the society to come forward with their helping hands for the brilliant students by following the example of the donor.

It may be mentioned that Mr. Ronoda Prasad Roy was a third year honors student of the Department of Mathematics of Dhaka University. He was brutally killed by the barbaric Pakistani Army on the Black Night of March 25 in1971.
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(Md. Rafiqul Islam)
Assistant Director
Public Relations Office
University of Dhaka

A new award titled ‘Ronoda Prasad Roy Award of Academic Excellence’ has been introduced at the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Applied Mathematics of Dhaka University (DU). Vice-Chancellor in-charge and Treasurer of North South University Dr. Gour Gobinda Goswami handed over a cheque for Tk. 24 lac and 44 thousand to DU Treasurer Prof. Dr. Md. Kamal Uddin today (Wednesday), October 28, 2015 at the Vice-Chancellor’s office to introduce the award. A donor who desires not to be identified has donated money to introduce this award in memory of late Ronoda Prasad Roy. Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University Prof. Dr. AAMS Arefin Siddique was present on this occasion. (Picture: PR Office)