Repeated Student Deaths in CUET Ponds: Entry into All Ponds Completely Banned

The death of one student after another in a pond on the Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) campus has cast a shadow of shock and fear over the entire CUET. After the tragic death of three students who drowned in the same pond adjacent to the campus’s poet Kazi Nazrul Islam Hall in just two weeks, the entire CUET is now in a state of shock. In the context of these series of accidents and safety risks, the university administration has been forced to take strict steps.

​According to sources, Arnab Saha, a student of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the 2021-22 academic year, drowned while taking a bath in a pond adjacent to Nazrul Hall on July 28. Before the grief of that tragic incident could be overcome, Chamak Dutta of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Shanto Deb of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering drowned while swimming in the same pond on Wednesday. The two deceased students were the new faces of the 2024-25 academic year.

​After a series of young lives were lost, the university administration has issued an emergency directive on Thursday, August 13, giving top priority to the safety of students. The notification, signed by Professor Dr. Md. Saiful Islam, Director of CUET’s Student Welfare Department, has officially declared all the ponds on the campus as ‘dangerous’.

The notification clearly states that until further notice, it is completely prohibited to enter any pond on the CUET campus, bathe, swim or enter water. The administration has strictly warned that anyone who enters the pond in violation of this instruction will be considered an offense against the university’s discipline and strict disciplinary action will be taken against that person immediately as per the prevailing rules.

To avoid any kind of unwanted accidents on campus and keep the lives of students safe, the CUET administration has called on all concerned, including students, to play a responsible role and strictly follow the rules and regulations.