News Desk : dhakamirror.com
Jagannath University students on Tuesday withdrew their movement, for the construction of the university’s second campus, after the interim government accepted their demands.
AKM Rakib, an organiser of the movement, told reporters after a meeting held at the education ministry on the day that they were withdrawing the movement.
‘The government has assured us that they will accept all of our demands today so we are retrieving from our three days’ ultimatum,’ he added.
Before that the adviser for the education ministry Wahiduddin Mahmud also told reporters that they had already taken initiative to fulfill the demands which are logical.
Several hundreds of students besieged the secretariat for around three hours to press home their five-point demand on Monday afternoon.
The demands of the students are — bringing the project director liable for construction of the university’s second campus under legal accountability and transfer the work to Bangladesh Army officials within seven days, an official statement of the education ministry on the handover of the construction work, immediate acquisition of the remaining 11 acres of land for campus expansion, cancellation of all contracts signed during the previous ‘authoritarian’ governments concerning the old campus, inclusion of the university under the University Grants Commission’s pilot project and allocation of an annual budget of minimum Tk 500 crore for the university.
On Tuesday’s meeting Nahid Islam, adviser of the ministries of posts, telecommunications and information technology and information and broadcasting, and Jagannath University vice-chancellor professor Md Rezaul Karim were also present at the meeting.
