Rangpur Nagorik Committee gives Apr 21 deadline

The deadline was given at a meeting of the committee held at the auditorium of Rangpur Chamber of Commerce and Industries (RCCI).

The demands include declaration of Rangpur division, setting up a university, an engineering college and an education board, pipeline gas supply and construction of a bridge over Teesta river.

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The meeting was presided over by Nagorik Committee President Mohammad Afzal.

The meeting decided that programmes for demonstration, human chain, public meeting and hartal will be announced after April 21.

Prime Minister Begum Khalada Zia may visit Rangpur on April 21, sources said.

Speakers at the meeting said the ruling party had pledged before 2001 election that an education board would be set up in Rangpur, but that has not been fulfilled.

The former government had decided to set up a science and technology university in Rangpur but the present government cancelled the plan, they claimed.