Buet students continue demo on campus
Students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) continued demonstrations for the second consecutive day yesterday, to press home their 16-point demand including infrastructural development of residential halls.
Around 300 students took position at the base of university’s Shaheed Minar around 10am.
They continued their agitation till 1pm.
On Saturday, students submitted a memorandum to the vice-chancellor and issued a three-day ultimatum to fulfil their demands.
Their 16-point demand includes forming a special committee comprising teachers of civil engineering and architecture departments to build the Buet gate; organising a competition among students seeking the gate’s design; removing the “controversial” director of Directorate of Student’s Welfare (DSW) post, and appointing someone else to it; introducing teacher evaluation system; naming the female dormitory after Sabekun Nahar Sony; reintroducing the system of giving double supplementary after acquiring 108 credit; clearing infrastructural development projects which were halted; digitalising students’ payment process; increasing allocation in research sector and introducing code system instead of roll in exams.
Anis Rahman Mithu, a coordinator of the movement, said, “We took position at the base of Shaheed Minar at 10am. Later, some of us went to meet the vice-chancellor but could not find him. From there, we were sent to the dean’s office but we could not meet him either.”
“The university authorities are yet to contact us. We will continue our protest tomorrow [today],” Mithu added.
Comments