Keraniganj: Students of Jagannath University (JnU) on Wednesday took position at Paltan intersection in Dhaka demanding student dormitories on the empty land of Dhaka’s old central jail.

The students also blocked the roads in the area, which created traffic congestion.

The students first took position from the university’s main gate up to Ray Saheb Bazar intersection at 8:00am and then in a procession proceeded towards Bangshal after breaking a police barricade at about 10:00am.

As they tried to move towards the Prime Minister’s Office for submitting a memorandum, police obstructed them at the Bangshal intersection where they started a demonstration.

The students’ demand for residential halls on the land of the vacated Dhaka jail came as their accommodation problems took a deepening trend with landlords’ unwillingness to rent out houses to bachelors in the wake of militancy rise in the country.

The JnU students embarked on the movement for dormitories on the land of Dhaka Central Jail on 2 August after the transfer of its total setup to the newly-built jail facility in Keraniganj last month.