Debate



TIB-CUDS Inter-Department Debate Competition 2007


 
Mass communication and journalism department of Chitagong University became champion of the TIB-CUDS Inter-Department Debate Competition that ended at Chitagong University. The motion of the debate was 'Not terrorism but corruption makes the present world unstable'. In another debate titled 'Corruption and not politics is the major hindrance to encouraging foreign investment in Bangladesh', Law department defeated finance and banking department. Dr Syed Manzurul Islam, professor of English department of Dhaka University, was present as chief guest at the concluding session of the competition organized jointly by Chitagong University Debating Society (CUDS), Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) and Sachetan Nagorik Committee, Chitagong at the business faculty auditorium. Debaters of 34 departments took part in the four-day-long competition where apart from parliamentary debate, open debate was also held. Manzurul Islam and Shariful Abedin, former president of CUDS, performed as the speakers in the final round of the English and Bangla debate.