Chittagong College college students currently (17 September) announced a “total shutdown” demanding the instant appointment of a vice-chancellor.
At a protest rally held on Shaheed Minar premises of the college, student Neyamat Ullah Farabi announced the shutdown this afternoon.
“We’re supposed to be at the reading desk and in the learn room. But one of these deadlock has been created that now we had been compelled to rob to the streets leaving our review. Of us who’re adopting diplomacy over the appointment of VCs could well not be spared. They’ve to answer to to the nation,” he alleged.
“We are asserting a total shutdown of the campus except the VC appointment notification comes. Any longer, the administrative constructing and the 2 predominant gates of the college will be closed. The vice-chancellor himself will attain and originate the lock and enter the campus,” Farabi added.
Earlier on the day, college students fashioned a human chain and blocked the most main gate of the campus, demanding the appointment of a VC and other key personnel in the college administration by tomorrow to come.
At some stage in the protest, college students warned of more challenging measures if their requires weren’t met within a day. They gathered at the most main gate of the college’s Zero Level round noon conserving the human chain for nearly two hours.
The faculty students mentioned even supposing VCs had been appointed at Dhaka, Jahangirnagar, and Rajshahi universities, CU remains with out a VC, leaving it with out leadership and disrupting both academic and administrative functions. Despite repeated ultimatums, there has been no decision, they alleged.
On 12 August, below stress from college students, CU’s VC Prof Abu Taher, alongside with the proctorial body and all hall provosts, resigned. Since then, the college has been working with out a VC for over a month, deal disrupting academic and administrative actions.
College students had been protesting gradually for the past 10 days, beginning on 8 September, demanding the instant appointment of a VC and a talented-VC.
