Students of engineering universities, including Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, again blocked Shahbagh crossing on Wednesday, pressing for reforms in the recruitment and promotion system of engineers in the public service.
Shahbagh police station officer-in-charge Khalid Mansoor said that the students blocked the Shahbagh crossing at about 11:30am, bringing the traffic to a halt in the busy area.
鈥楳ore than a thousand students gathered at the Shhabagh crossing to press their three demands. The Shahbagh crossing is fully blocked and the traffic movement had been disrupted for about half an hour,鈥� OC Khalid said.
The protesters gave an ultimatum that they would march towards the secretariat if their demands were not met within 1:00pm on Wednesday.
The protesters demanded that all the candidates must pass a recruitment examination and hold at least a BSc degree to enter into the 9th grade public jobs in engineering, promotions through quotas are not allowed, and no promotion can be granted even by creating equivalent positions under different titles.
Their demands included reservation of 10th grade sub-assistant engineer/equivalent posts only for them in light of the existing notification, promotion from sub-assistant engineer to assistant engineer post to 50 per cent, creating opportunities for them to pursue higher education through credit transfer and modernisation of the curriculum of Diploma.
