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Protest Against Increased Price of DU Admission Forms

10 students hurt in police action

DU Correspondent
At least 10 leaders and activists of Pragotishil Chhatra Jote (PCI), an alliance of left-leaning student organisations, were injured in police action when they tried to stop selling of admission forms at banks on the campus of Dhaka University (DU) protesting the increased price.
The injured are Biplob Mandal, DU unit general secretary of Samajtantrik Chhatra Front (SCF), Hasan Iqbal Sajib, Avino Kibria, Abu Toab Apu and Masud of Bangladesh Chhatra Union, Sohan Sobhan of Bangladesh Chhatra Oikya Forum and Sohel of SCF.
They received treatment from DU medical centre and Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.
Eyewitness said police beat the students up with rifles and batons when they tried to stop selling admission forms for first-year
honours courses at the Janata Bank of the Teacher-Student Centre (TSC) at around 10.00am.
The PCJ started demonstration on the campus when the university authorities in September fixed the price of admission form at Tk 300. Last year the price was Tk250.
PCJ leaders on Saturday submitted a memorandum to DU Vice-chancellor Prof SMA Faiz demanding cancellation of the increased price of admission form.
At a press conference on the same day, they also vowed to stop selling admission form if their demands were not met.
But the university authorities did not reduce the price of admission form.
So as per their scheduled programme, several hundred PCJ leaders and activists tried to stop selling of admission forms at three banks on the campus in the morning and fell victims to police action.
Officer-in-charge of Shahbagh Police Station Rezaul Karim told The Daily Star that they did not go for any kind of charges as the students just tried to resist them from entering the banks.
However, following the clash PCJ men took position in front of Janata Bank at TSC and Agrani Bank at Curzon Hall to press home theirdemand.
The sale of admission form remained suspended for four hours as the students laid siege to the banks.
Applicants and guardians were seen waiting for the form hours after hours in front of the banks.
Jannatul Ferdous, who came from Gazipur to buy a form of Gha unit, expressed her dissatisfaction over the harassment saying the university authorities and the student leaders could have solved the issue earlier.
Later at around 2.00pm, the
PCJ men withdrew the siege after getting assurance from the vice-chancellor that the income from the increased price of the forms would be spent for students' welfare and the authorities would not increase the price in near future.
In the afternoon, Prof Faiz told the reporters that the university authorities increased the price of admission form as the dean offices concerned reported that it is necessary to conduct the admission process properly.
"We increased the price of admission forms after 10 years. This means we never impose any charges on students without any justifiable reason," he said, adding that he does not see any reasons for increasing the price of admission form in near future.
Additional police were deployed in front of the three banks during the whole day.