Agitating students’ decision on going back to classes by today or tomorrow
Receiving assurance from the education minister of a friendly environment, agitating students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) held a meeting yesterday to decide whether to return to classes. The decision would be announced today or tomorrow at a press conference, the students said.
“We are taking it positively,” said one of the students’ representatives who met Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Wednesday over their one-point demand for removal of Vice-chancellor Prof Nazrul Islam and Pro-VC Prof Habibur Rahman.
They had wanted to express their thoughts before Nahid since they had not felt secure by the decision taken at Monday’s meeting between Nahid and teachers of the university. Nahid assured teachers of the withdrawal of the pro-VC and the two cases filed against faculty members and students. Teachers then agreed to resume academic activities.
But students demanded removal of the VC too, fearing that in his presence at Buet, they would face administrative harassment.
On April 7, Buet Teachers’ Association launched an agitation, including work abstention, bringing 16 allegations of corruption against the VC and the pro-VC. But they suspended their agitation temporarily after the prime minister’s assurances of fulfilling the demand.
Seeing no progress made on the issue, the teachers again announced non-stop work abstention from July 14. Students and staff of the university this time joined them.
Courtesy of The Daily Star
