Students go on rampage to realise demand

Students of Government Azam Khan Commerce College (AKCC) yesterday vandalised classrooms and confined the principal to the administrative building to press their demand for introducing master's courses in finance and banking and marketing departments of the college.
They went on the rampage after the college authorities hung a notice on the notice board at around 10:00am regarding admission to master's classes of the two departments under National University (NU).
The agitating students said they will submit memoranda to the prime minister, the education minister and the vice-chancellor of National University (NU) through the deputy commissioner of Khulna today, form a human chain in front of college at 11:00am tomorrow and stage a sit-in in front of administration building on Tuesday to press the demand.
The students released the principal from confinement after he assured them of taking necessary steps to introduce master's courses at the two departments.
The college authorities will immediately send a team to NU to take approval of the authorities concerned, the principal said.
Students, who have passed honours in finance and banking and marketing from the college, said they have been agitating for long to introduce master's courses in the two subjects, but to no effect.
They said 53 students have achieved first class in honours final examinations from finance and banking department while 18 got first class from marketing department of the college this year. But most of them will not able to get admitted into master's courses at colleges outside the Khulna division for financial constraints, they added.