Students demand safety roads

SHAKHIPUR (Tangail): Students formed a human chain at Boro Chaona Bazar area yesterday protesting killing of student Sadia Afrin in a road accident on Friday.
SHAKHIPUR (Tangail): Students formed a human chain at Boro Chaona Bazar area yesterday protesting killing of student Sadia Afrin in a road accident on Friday.
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Dinajpur (South) Correspondent :
Demanding safe road Students of different educational institutions observed a human chain program with demonstrations and demonstrations at Fulbari in Dinajpur on Saturday morning.At that time, they examined the driver and vehicle license of transport vehicles of different areas over Fulbari. Students from the morning came out of their respective educational institutions and gathered at Shapla Chattar in the local Dhakamore area. In order to safely run there, thay wants a safe road, along with various banners and placards to carry out the human chain program. Student Alangkar Gupta, Abir Islam Anaj, Mosaddek Hossain, Fahim Islam, Anika Tabassum, Hridoy Sarkar, Sweety Akhtar, Shuvo Dutta, Sumaiya Afrin also spoke in the human chain programme.During this time the students requested the movement of the bus, trucks, microbus, pickup spans, private cars, and the driver’s license and vehicle license test, and all of them according to the traffic law. Student Alangkar Gupta, Anika Tabasum, Abir Islam Anaj, Mosaddek Hossain and Famim Islam say, demonstrate solidarity with the movement of Dhaka students, they are protesting and demanding a safe road. Due to traffic police at Fulbari, the students did the job of traffic police at their own due to not seeing them duties.
Nahid urges protesting
students to return home
Sylhet Bureau adds: Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid has called on the protesters demanding safer roads to be patient and call off their demonstrations.
The minister made the remarks during the convocation ceremony of Sylhet Metropolitan University on Saturday morning.
The government has accepted all of the students’ demands, he said. It will take some time to implement some of the demands and students’ concerns will be allayed once it begins, he added.
Nahid said that the protest movement was also supported by the Ministry of Education and that the ministry would maintain pressure in order to ensure that ‘killer drivers’ be brought to justice.
The education minister said he was hopeful that students would slowly begin to return home.
Transport workers were attempting to sow discord by using the protests as an excuse to halt services, he said.
This cannot happen, said Nahid.
They must instead continue their regular services and ensure that people have access to transportation, he added.
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