A new trust fund titled ‘Shamsun Nahar Hall Alumni Association Trust Fund’ has been established at Dhaka University (DU). On behalf of Shamsun Nahar Hall Alumni Association its President Ava Datta handed over a cheque for Tk. 30 lac to DU Treasurer Prof. Mamtaz Uddin Ahmed today August 22, 2022 at the Vice-Chancellor’s Lounge to set up this trust fund. Vice-Chancellor of DU Prof. Dr. Md. Akhtaruzzaman presided over the cheque-handover function.

Registrar Prabir Kumar Sarker, Provost of Shamsun Nahar Hall Prof. Dr. Lafifa Jamal, Secretary of the association Shamsun Nahar Chapa, Treasurer Bani Chowdhury and some other office bearers of the association were present on this occasion. 

Out of the income of this trust fund, every year a good number of meritorious and financially challenged students of Shamsun Nahar Hall will be given ‘Shamsun Nahar Hall Alumni Association Trust Fund’ scholarship.

DU Vice-Chancellor Prof. Dr. Md. Akhtaruzzaman thanked donors of Shamsun Nahar Hall Alumni Association to establish this trust fund. He said, it is a generous initiative of the association as the students of the hall would be highly inspired and benefitted by this trust fund. This initiative would play an important role to achieve SDGs, DU VC hoped.

(Mahmood Alam)

Director

Public Relations Office

University of Dhaka