Students of Moulvibazar Government High School in Sadar upazila continued agitation against the move of the education engineering department to construct a building of its zonal office on the school ground, depriving them of a place to play.

On a visit to the school yesterday, this correspondent found that angry students had broken the foundation stone and made a garden on the school ground.

Sheikh Nasim Reza, executive engineer of the education engineering department, laid the foundation stone on the school ground on September 9.

Hearing of the matter, students protested with banners and festoons in the district town. They broke the foundation stone on September 28.

Later, former students planted different types of flowers and fruit trees on 20 decimals of land there.

The education engineering department laid a foundation stone, to construct its office building. Photo: Star

Students say they cannot play in the ground as it is occupied by the education engineering department.

Syed Mushaid Ahmed, a former student of the school, said, "We will not accept erection of the building on the school ground. If the education engineering department does not stop we will announce a tougher programme after Durga Puja."

Fazlur Rahman, headmaster of the school, declined to talk with this correspondent regarding the matter.

Sheikh Nasim Reza said laying of the foundation stone was a government decision.