Students on Tuesday shut down and locked different polytechnic institutes in Dhaka and elsewhere across Bangladesh pressing home their six-point demands.
They locked the polytechnic institutes on Tuesday morning and said that they would continue the shutdown till their six-point demands, including the cancellation of a High Court verdict that allowed the promotion of craft instructors to the post of junior instructor, were met.
In Dhaka, students of Dhaka Polytechnic Institute staged protests and brought out processions on the campus premises at about 11:30am.
As part of their preannounced 鈥榗omplete shutdown鈥� programme, they forced everyone out and locked the gates.
Addressing a press conference at the institute, Bangladesh Karigori Chhatra Andolan Bangladesh central representative Mashifiq Islam said, 鈥榃e will continue the shutdown till our six-point demands are met.鈥�
鈥榃e have boycotted all classes and academic activities during the shutdown,鈥� said Mashifiq, also a student of Dhaka Polytechnic Institute.
Central leaders of the platform said that they were holding programmes in a way so that people did not have to suffer.
Students of different polytechnic institutes, including Jhenidah Polytechnic Institute, Rajshahi Polytechnic Institute, Lakshmipur Polytechnic Institute, Rangpur Polytechnic Institute, Kushtia Polytechnic Institute and Chapainawabganj Polytechnic Institute locked and shut down their respective institutes on the day.
Earlier, on Sunday polytechnic students staged demonstrations on the campuses resuming their protest after a five day suspension of their programme on April 22 after staging demonstrations for seven consecutive days.
On April 16, the polytechnic students across the country staged demonstrations by blocking roads, highways and rail tracks in Dhaka and other districts causing huge sufferings to people to press home their six-point demand.
The demands included cancellation of craft instructors鈥� promotion in the posts of junior instructors; cancellation of the opportunity to enroll in the diploma in engineering course at any age and ensuring a four-year quality curriculum based on the model of the developed world; and taking legal actions against the organisations that are appointing diploma engineers in posts lower than the 10th grade although the deputy assistant engineers and equivalent 10th-grade posts in the government, autonomous and private organisations are designated for polytechnic students.
