Countrywide strike called at edn instts for April 30

Outraged by the continued neglect to garment workers even after a series of accidents in the garment factories, progressive student bodies yesterday announced to enforce a strike at all educational institutions across the country on April 30 to demand arrest and punishment of the owners of Rana Plaza and the garment factories housed in it.
They said Rana Plaza's owner Sohel Rana not only defied the laws but used his political muscle to grab most of the area on which the building was built. The student bodies demanded that the government publish a report on whether all garment factory facilities were safe for work.
Progressive Student Alliance, a platform of seven student bodies, also urged the government to publish a complete list of victims of the collapse and compensate and rehabilitate their families. They said the amount of money given in the name of compensation to the deceased or the injured was too inadequate.
The student leaders from Bangladesh Chhatra Union, Bangladesh Chhatra Federation President and Bangladesh Chhatra Moitree, among others, were speaking at a press conference at Madhur canteen of Dhaka University.
Terming the Savar incident that cost over 300 lives a "killing", they said it is a consequence of lack of proper government response to the past incidents which let owners go free. Meanwhile, four student organisations will demonstrate in front of the BGMEA building at 12:000pm today with the same demands.