DU correspondent :
The students of seven Dhaka University-affiliated colleges blocked Nilkhet intersection again on Tuesday at the end of 72 hours ultimatum. They demanded auto-promotion to the next year considering the Covid-19 situation without holding any further exams.
The students took to the Nilkhet crossing at around 11.30 am and staged demonstrations for nearly five and
half hours.They were students of 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20 academic years of seven colleges.
The students called on the administration to take effective steps to find out the causes of mass failure and prevention of it. They also demanded to change the mark distribution of the examination of philosophy department.
However, the traffic was stopped in the streets due to the demonstration. The bus drivers say that the traffic jam on this route are relatively larger than any others and the frequently students movement has made it difficulties for them to travel on this route.
It seems that the passengers were taken out of the buses and sent to the destination on foot.
However, the students have suspended their demonstration at 4.00 pm by receiving a written assurances from DU Assistant Proctor Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed.
Contract, DU Proctor Prof AKM Golam Rabbani siad, “On 29th March, Vice-Chancellor (Education) Prof. ASM Maksud Kamal will have a meeting with the principals of seven colleges. There will be a discussion on student demands here.”
“We have been through a long session jam with Covid-19 outbreak. If again one year will be lost, there is no other way but to leave the academic life,” MasumaAktherMun, a student of Bangla department of Begum Badrunnessa Government Girls College, said.
“We have been in classes for only two months, and, on the other hand, the examinations of four-hour were taken in two-hour. It has a negative effect on our examination. We were going one to another since one mount but the administration not to responsed,” SagorNewaz, students of Government Bangla College, said.
Earlier, on 16 March, the students staged a demonstration by blocking Nilkhet for two hours and gave a 72-hour ultimatum to the college administration to decide its concern.
