Barguna college students go berserk

Hundreds of students of Patharghata Degree College in Barguna yesterday vandalised college property and demonstrated on the campus demanding immediate nationalisation of the institution.

The agitated students also confined the principal of the college to his room for about one and a half hour.

Sources said although Patharghata Degree College, established in 1985, is the oldest institution in the upazila but recently the education ministry enlisted Patharghata Women's College as nationalised.

As per the government policy, one educational institution in each upazila will be nationalised.

Protesting the matter, students of the college brought out a procession on the campus around 9:30am.

At one stage, they confined Mohammad Khalilur Rahman, principal of the college, to his office around 10:00am. They also boycotted their classes and blocked the Patharghata-Barguna road for nearly two hours at the same time.

Officer-in-Charge Ziaul Haque of Patharghata Police Station said on information, police went to the college campus first and freed the principal from confinement around 11:30am.