bdnews24.com :
Students of Dhaka’s College of Home Economics have blocked a key Dhaka thoroughfare around New Market for a second day. They are asking for recognition of their college as an institute of Dhaka University.
Around 11am on Tuesday, hundreds of students of the women’s college blocked the road and started demonstrating, creating a traffic gridlock in and around the area,
The agitation disrupted vehicular movement on
the roads to Azimpur, Mirpur, New Paltan Line and Dhaka University. On Monday, they blocked the same intersection for four hours and held demonstrations.
The blockade was lifted around 2:15pm with the demonstrators announcing it to continue on Wednesday.
Students of the college at Dhaka’s Azimpur raised the movement in September last year.
Protesters, who have boycotted classes since Mar 11, said they will not go back to classes until their demand is met.
Amid Monday’s announcement to continue with agitations, additional police forces have been deployed in and around the college since Tuesday morning.
Around 10am, students started demonstrating inside the campus and later moved to the New Market thoroughfare to block it. The intersection is a key point as it leads to several educational institutions and the Dhaka Medical College Hospital. A spokesperson for the demonstrators said they will continue with their agitation until their demand is met. “We will not leave the streets until the education ministry assures us,” Clothing and Textile Department second-year student Shammi Shoma told bdnews24.com.
She claimed of protesters being threatened by teachers on phone since the movement began.
“We have no experienced teachers. It has been two years, but results of the first year exams are yet to be published. There are several administrative and academic issues to be addressed. “These issues will be solved once the institute is taken over by Dhaka University,” said Shoma.
Students of Dhaka’s College of Home Economics have blocked a key Dhaka thoroughfare around New Market for a second day. They are asking for recognition of their college as an institute of Dhaka University.
Around 11am on Tuesday, hundreds of students of the women’s college blocked the road and started demonstrating, creating a traffic gridlock in and around the area,
The agitation disrupted vehicular movement on
the roads to Azimpur, Mirpur, New Paltan Line and Dhaka University. On Monday, they blocked the same intersection for four hours and held demonstrations.
The blockade was lifted around 2:15pm with the demonstrators announcing it to continue on Wednesday.
Students of the college at Dhaka’s Azimpur raised the movement in September last year.
Protesters, who have boycotted classes since Mar 11, said they will not go back to classes until their demand is met.
Amid Monday’s announcement to continue with agitations, additional police forces have been deployed in and around the college since Tuesday morning.
Around 10am, students started demonstrating inside the campus and later moved to the New Market thoroughfare to block it. The intersection is a key point as it leads to several educational institutions and the Dhaka Medical College Hospital. A spokesperson for the demonstrators said they will continue with their agitation until their demand is met. “We will not leave the streets until the education ministry assures us,” Clothing and Textile Department second-year student Shammi Shoma told bdnews24.com.
She claimed of protesters being threatened by teachers on phone since the movement began.
“We have no experienced teachers. It has been two years, but results of the first year exams are yet to be published. There are several administrative and academic issues to be addressed. “These issues will be solved once the institute is taken over by Dhaka University,” said Shoma.
