The agitating students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology have reiterated their demand for the resignation of the university’s vice-chancellor Farid Uddin in their meeting with education minister Dipu Moni at the Circuit House in Sylhet city on Friday afternoon.
Dipu Moni said that the demand for the resignation of the VC would be presented to the president as he, also the Chancellor, holds the power to appoint and remove someone in the post of VC.
The students raised a total of eight demands during the three-hour meeting with the education minister.
After the meeting, Dipu Moni told reporters, ‘We have listened to them attentively during the discussions.’
‘However, some of the demands of the students have already been met. Their main demand is the resignation or removal of the VC,’ she added.
The other demands made by the students are – start of classes and examinations, withdrawal of cases against students, opening of closed mobile banking accounts of more than 250 students, provision of one-time financial assistance to student Sajal Kunda who was injured in police firing and confirmation of ninth grade job for him, recruiting Md Zafar Iqbal and Yasmin Haque as Emeritus Professors, increase the budget for research in all universities, implementation of coding system in examination system, introduction of recruitment process on the basis of PhD and demo class in teacher recruitment.
Apart from Dipu Moni, deputy education minister Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury Nowfel and expatriates’ welfare and overseas employment minister Imran Ahmed were in the meeting with the students, teachers and different SUST organisations.
