Release of Comilla Survey Instt students demanded
The students of Engineering and Survey Institute of Rajshahi yesterday barricaded busy Shaheb Bazar road and staged a sit-in at Shaheb Bazar zero point demanding immediate release of Comilla Survey Institute students.
Earlier on Wednesday, at least 20 general students of Comilla Survey Institute were injured in a police attack when they were staging a demonstration on the institute campus to press home their four-point demand.
Police also arrested seven students from the spot.
Several hundred general students of the institute here under the banner of 'Students' Development Committee' boycotted their classes and brought out a protest procession in the city.
Processionists paraded through different streets and chanted various slogans against the police atrocities on the general students in Comilla.
Later, they put up a barricade on the busy Shaheb Bazar road and staged a sit-in at the zero point in protest against the police action on the students.
The agitating students called on the government to fulfil their demands immediately.
The demands include recognition of the institute students as diploma holders in job sector, their recruitment as survey diploma holders, sub-assistant settlement officers, deputy assistant land surveyors, building inspectors, sub-assistant engineers (survey) and taxation officers and inclusion of modern technologies in their survey education.
They threatened to launch a tougher movement against the government if their demands are not met within a short time.
Following their demonstration, a huge traffic jam was created on Shaheb Bazar road and movement of vehicles, including rickshaws and passers-by, came to a halt for over one hour.
The agitating students later staged a sit-in and held protest rally blocking Sonadighi Road, but police dispersed them to avert any untoward incident.
At that time, some unruly students tried to ransack BRTC bus and human haulers, but police resisted them.
The agitating students later reached their campus and damaged their lab and classrooms to meet the same demand.
At a protest rally on the campus, the students announced that they would continue to boycott their scheduled classes and examinations until their demands are met.
President of the committee Asraful Islam, General Secretary Sajjad Hossain and executive members Abul Hosain, Towhidul Islam, Salma and Farzana addressed the rally.
Anwar Zahid, acting principal of the institute, told this correspondent that, “The students' demands are logical, but we did not support their demonstration.”
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