Law enforces charged batons and fired teargas on the students of engineering universities when they were marching towards state guesthouse Jamuna to press their three-point demand on Wednesday.
The protesters blocked Shahbagh in the morning and later started marching towards the chief adviser's official residence at about 1:30pm.
When they reached the Intercontinental crossing, the police intervened the crowd, charge batons and fired tear gas to disperse the students.
Earlier, Shahbagh police station officer-in-charge Khalid Mansoor said that protesters blocked the Shahbagh crossing at about 11:30am.
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.
