The Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology authorities on Friday withdrew the instruction to vacate halls but suspended all academic activities for two weeks in the wake of student protests over the deaths of two of their fellows in a road accident.
The decision has come from 152nd syndicate meeting held on Friday afternoon at the academic building of CUET. The syndicate meeting also announces that all academic activities will remain closed till 11th May and from 12th May it will resume.
Fazlul Rahman, public relations deputy director of CUET, confirmed the news to 抖阴精品.
The situation is normal since Thursday night and it is hoped that everyone would accept the decision what the syndicate committee decided, he added.
Earlier on Thursday, CUET authority announced the closure of the institution for an indefinite period reportedly to tackle the ongoing student protest over the death of their two fellows in a road crash.
The university authorities also asked the male students to leave their hall by 5:00pm on Thursday and the female students to leave the hall by 9:00am on Friday.
Defying the directive, the students continued to stage demonstration in the night past Thursday by blocking the Chattogram-Kaptai highway near their institution in Raujan upazila in the district for the fourth consecutive day.
They also burnt two buses of Shah Amanat Paribahan. Additional police forces were deployed in the university area.
Students placed a nine-point charter of demands, including payment of appropriate compensation to the victim students鈥� families by the bus company, Shah Amanat Paribahan, cancellation of all the local bus services, the establishment of a modern medical centre on the CUET campus, construction of a four-lane highway from Chattogram to Kaptai, increasing the number of traffic islands and ensuring all road safety and speed control measures.
Chattogram district Superintendent of police SM Shafiuddin said that additional police forces from the Chattogram district and Raujan upazila were deployed on the university campus on Thursday afternoon.
On Monday, two civil engineering students of the CUET were killed in a road crash in Chattogram triggering their fellow students to launch the protest.
The other student who was injured in the accident is out of danger now but still under observation at Evercare Hospital.
The police arrested the accused driver of the bus on Tuesday.
The bus, which killed two students, Shanto Saha, 21, and Towfiq Hossain, 20, did not have a fitness certificate, while dates of its other documents were expired.
