The authorities of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology have decided to postpone the ongoing examinations amid a boycott by its students demanding keeping the campus free from politics.
At an emergency meeting of the academic council held on Saturday afternoon, a decision was also made to reschedule and retake the examinations between March 30 and April 20 this year.
The decisions came after the meeting chaired by the BUET vice-chancellor Satya Prasad Majumder.
General students of the BUET have been waging a movement on the campus by boycotting classes and examinations since March 29 to press home their demands, including expulsion of student Imtiaz Hossen, who is a central committee member of the Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of the ruling Awami League, and some other students for resuming BCL politics on the university campus on March 29 through a showdown, defying a previous ban on politics on the campus.
The High Court, responding to a writ petition filed by Imtiaz, on April 1 allowed activities of all political organisations on the campus.
The 498th academic council has taken three decisions.
The resolution adopted by the academic council read that the remaining final examinations for the July 2023 semester at the undergraduate level were postponed.
About decision on rescheduling and retaking of the examinations, it read that students who had already participated in the examinations between March 30 and April 20 could retake the examinations.
A decision was also made that the university authorities would take legal steps soon following the High Court order.
One of the protesting students said that they would fix their next course of action after meeting with the BUET authorities.
Earlier on April 15, BUET appointed professor Mohammad Al Amin Siddique as the new director of the Directorate of Students Welfare replacing professor Md Mizanur Rahman.
One of the demands of the protesting students was the resignation of professor Md Mizanur Rahman from the position of director for his alleged failure to protect the protocol not to allow anyone inside the campus after 10:30pm.
The BUET banned political activities on the campus following general students鈥� protests in the wake of the murder of its student Abrar Fahad by some BCL leaders at the university鈥檚 Sher-e-Bangla Hall on October 7, 2019.
