The government decided to waive tuition fees for the students who were wounded in the July-August mass uprising, said an education ministry circular on Tuesday referring to a president鈥檚 order.
The waiver will be applicable to all the wounded students, from the secondary to university levels, studying in government and non-government schools, colleges, madrasshas, technical educational institutions and universities, according to the circular.
The injured students with their prescriptions of their medical treatment are required to apply to the聽 heads of their respective educational institutions for the waiver, the circular read, adding that the heads will take immediate action in this regard after reviewing the applications.
The decision of tuition fee waiver will be in effect for the injured students鈥� academic life spanning from their current level to the university level.
All educational institutions were ordered to take immediate steps to implement this decision.
Md Yeanur Rahman, senior assistant secretary of the Secondary and Higher Education Division, signed the circular, confirming that the decision would be in effect for the private universities also as the institutions are under the purview of the education ministry.聽
Sheikh Hasina resigned as the prime minister on August 5 and fled the country, ending her 15-year rule amid an unprecedented student-led mass uprising against her authoritarian regime.
Her government carried out a massive crackdown on students and other protestors when the Student Movement Against Discrimination, a platform of anti-quota protestors started in July, demanded reform of the quota system in public service.
The attacks on protesters by the law enforcement agencies and activists of Awami League and its associated bodies, killing many students and ordinary people and injuring hundreds of others along with mass arrests, added fuel to the student protests, which turned into a massive civil unrest and brought the downfall of the Hasina-led Awami League regime on August 5.
A health ministry committee by October 29 confirmed their listing of 869 deaths and 3,863 injured victims.
The health subcommittee of the Student Movement against Discrimination, meanwhile, submitted a draft list of 1,612 deaths and over 30,000 injured victims to the government committee for finalisation.
Health adviser to the interim government Nurjahan Begum after visiting central police hospital in the capital鈥檚 Rajarbagh on August 29 said that over 400 were blinded during the student-led mass uprising.
Various local and international non-governmental agencies also came up with separate lists.