Barisal vet instt shut for over a month now

Frustration grips its 350 students

17 October 2009, 17:00 PM

Our Correspondent, Barisal

Frustration grips around 350 students of Barisal Veterinary Institute (BVI), which has remained closed since September 2 following student agitation on the campus. Students of the institute under Patuakhali Science and Technology University (PSTU) launched an agitating programme demanding restoration of their internship for one year and scrapping of changes made by the authorities in the curriculum. The PSTU academic council later expelled six students, served show cause notices on 10 students and made two teachers of the institute OSD. PSTU Registrar Nirmal Chandra Saha told The Daily Star that actions against the students and teachers were taken according to the decision of the academic council meeting held on September 27 after reviewing the report of the probe committee headed by Prof Nizamuddin. The expelled students are Palash Kumar, ABM Mustafa Kamal, Kamrul Hassan, Md Shaifuddin, Abu Bakar Siddik and Fakrul Islam Sarkar. They all were expelled for one semester. Ten students of different semesters were asked to explain by October 15 why they would not be expelled for their involvement in creating chaos on the BVI campus. Associate Prof Abdul Matin of dairy and poultry science department, and Associate Prof Anisur Rahman, of veterinary medicine and surgery department, have been made OSD and closed to PSTU for “instigating” agitation on the campus. The students claimed six months' internship instead of one year and changes in the curriculum will seriously hamper education of the old batch students who may face problems during admission to other institutions for higher studies.