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Students protest at Jamalpur Textile Engineering College over eight-point demands
Students have locked the administrative and academic buildings of Jamalpur Textile Engineering College on an eight-point demand. They boycotted classes and exams for the second day today, Monday, and held a human chain and protest.
The students first locked the administrative and academic buildings of the college on Sunday afternoon. The human chain and protest began on the campus from 11:30 am today, Monday. While shouting slogans, the students said that the movement will continue until their demands are met. The students complained that there is a teacher crisis in this college, which is affiliated to Bangladesh University of Textiles and run by the Textiles Department under the Ministry of Textiles and Jute. There are only six permanent teachers in the college. Classes are being conducted by some guest teachers, resulting in major disruptions in teaching. Due to lack of manpower, the equipment and machines in the lab are being damaged.
Students protest at Jamalpur Textile Engineering College over eight-point demands
A student named Miraj Hossain said, “Our demands are absolutely logical. We have been facing discrimination for a long time. Although BUTEX appoints regular teachers, they are not appointed in affiliated colleges. There is not even a lab assistant in the college. There is a long delay in publishing the exam results. The Textile College should be transferred to the Directorate of Education. This movement will continue until our eight-point demands are met.’
Although attempts were made to contact the college principal Biswajit Das several times in this regard, he did not pick up the phone.
The students’ demands include improving the quality of education by resolving the teacher crisis and changing the appointment rules, publishing the exam results within three months, providing mark sheets and grade sheets after each semester, completing the semester within six months, increasing the GPA standard in the course improvement exam, reducing semester and retake fees, hiring skilled manpower for machineries maintenance, and allocating buses with their own identities for students by evicting illegal structures around the campus.
