Students warn of movement over cut in quota under BCS exams
Monday, 18 February 2008
DU Correspondent
Students of the country's public universities and the colleges affiliated with the National University threatened Sunday to throw an indefinite strike programme from February 26, if the quota system in Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination is not rearranged by February 24 by cutting the existing quota of 55 per cent.
Over five hundred students joining hands in a human-chain on the Dhaka University campus announced the programme to press for realisation of their demand.
"We will be compelled to go for a tougher movement, if our demand to rearrange the existing anti-merit quota system remains unmet even after the stipulated time we have set", coordinator of the anti-quota movement KM Selim said.
Students against Oppression, a platform of DU students supported by the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), expressed their solidarity with the general students in this connection Sunday. The agitating students will also hold a grand rally on the DU campus February 25.
Campus sources from different public universities and colleges have affirmed that the students of those institutions would wage a joint movement with the students of the DU against the quota system from February 26.
Students of the country's public universities and the colleges affiliated with the National University threatened Sunday to throw an indefinite strike programme from February 26, if the quota system in Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination is not rearranged by February 24 by cutting the existing quota of 55 per cent.
Over five hundred students joining hands in a human-chain on the Dhaka University campus announced the programme to press for realisation of their demand.
"We will be compelled to go for a tougher movement, if our demand to rearrange the existing anti-merit quota system remains unmet even after the stipulated time we have set", coordinator of the anti-quota movement KM Selim said.
Students against Oppression, a platform of DU students supported by the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), expressed their solidarity with the general students in this connection Sunday. The agitating students will also hold a grand rally on the DU campus February 25.
Campus sources from different public universities and colleges have affirmed that the students of those institutions would wage a joint movement with the students of the DU against the quota system from February 26.