DU Correspondent :
The students of seven Dhaka University-affiliated colleges blocked Nilkhet intersection in Dhaka demanding promotion for the failed students considering the Covid-19 situation without holding any further exams. The students took to the Nilkhet crossing at around 11.00 am and staged demonstrations for nearly two hours.
They were students of 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20 academic years of seven colleges. However, after two hours’ demonstrations, they gave a
72-hour ultimatum to the college administration to decide its concern. “We will stage further demonstration if the administration is unable to take a logical solution within next 72 hours,” declaring 72 hours ultimatum, Robin, students of English department of Dhaka College said.
However, the students call on the administration to take effective steps to find out the causes of mass failure and prevention of it’s. They also demanded to change the mark distribution of the examination of philosophy department.
“We have gone through a long session jam as Covid-19 outbreak. If again one year will be lost, there is no other way but to drop out of academic life,” Masuma Akther Mun, a student of Bangla department of Begum Badrunnessa Government Girls College, said.
