Daily Shiksha.com, Chittagong : The students of Chittagong University of Engineering (CHUET) have started a protest by blocking the road for the second day after two students were killed by a bus.
Students blocked the Kaptai road in front of the main gate of Chuet campus by throwing trees from 9 am on Tuesday (March 23). At this time, hundreds of students started chanting slogans on the road. Students boycotted classes and exams as part of the second day of the programme, along with street protests. Hundreds of vehicles were stuck on Kaptai Road due to the protests.
During the protest, the students raised seven points of demand. They also announced that they will continue the movement until these demands are met.
The demands of the students are that the absconding driver and his accomplice should be quickly arrested and punished, setting up a modern medical center in the campus with all facilities, providing ambulance facilities with modern equipment, constructing a four-lane highway from the head of the road to Kaptai, documents for every bus and CNG-powered auto-rickshaw and Regular verification of driver’s licenses, holding student welfare councils accountable and forming student delegations, providing adequate compensation to the families of those killed and injured.
The students announced that all academic activities of Chuet will be suspended until the written commitment of not accepting these demands.
Along with the movement, the students will participate in the Ghaibana Janaza of the students killed in the university grounds at 12 noon today and in the mourning and prayer ceremony at 3 pm.
Earlier on Monday, three students of Chuet met with an accident while riding a motorcycle in Jianagar of Chittagong’s Rangunia police station. Shanto Saha, a third-year student of Civil Engineering Department of Chuet, died on the spot when a high-speed Shah Amanat Paribahan bus hit the student’s motorcycle.
Taufiq Hossain, a second year student of the same department, died on the way to the hospital with serious injuries. The deceased Shanto Saha is the son of Kajal Saha of Ward No. 4 of Narsingdi Sadar and Taufiq Hossain is the son of Mohammad Delwar Hossain of Ward No. 2 of New College Road of Sudharam Police Station of Noakhali Sadar Upazila. Zakaria Himu was injured in this incident. He is a second year student of Chuet. He is currently undergoing treatment at Evercare Hospital.
When the news of the death of two classmates reached the campus yesterday evening, the students immediately blocked the Chittagong-Kaptai road in front of the campus. At that time, angry students vandalized three buses and set fire to one bus. All the four damaged buses belong to Shah Amanat Paribahan.
