Demand for staff's ward quota protested by teachers, students

Teachers and students of Jahangirnagar University (JU) yesterday protested the university staff's demand to allow admission of 96 disqualified applicants under the ward quota.

Under the banner of "Teacher-Student Unity Forum", teacher and students held a press conference on the campus and announced protest programmes to move against the staff's demand.

The demonstrators also made a three-point demand, including a common policy for all admission seekers and removal of the vice chancellor's quota.

They said they would form a human chain on the JU Shaheed Minar premises today to press home their demand and handover a memorandum to Vice Chancellor Farzana Islam in this regard.     

Earlier, the university staff withdrew their movement for pressing home their demand after authorities concerned assured them of considering the request.

Abdur Rahman Babul, secretary of JU Officers' Association, said they would begin demonstrating again from today if the authorities' answer is not favourable.      

The Central Admission Committee is to meet today to make a decision about the admission of disqualified applicants. In the academic session of 2014-15, a total of 96 ward applicants out of 139 failed in the admission test.