Vet students call for steps to ensure employment
The students of veterinary science department of Rajshahi University (RU) formed a human chain on the campus yesterday demanding steps for their adequate employment at government and autonomous vet related organisations.
Over one hundred students joined the human chain organised RU unit of Bangladesh Veterinary Students Association (BVSA) in front of the university central library at 10:30am.
Teachers of the department also took part in the programme. Earlier, the students brought out a procession and paraded the different streets on the campus.
Addressing a press conference at Rajshahi University Journalists Association (Ruja) office, they urged the government to create five posts for veterinarians at each upazila, appointment of a veterinarian in every union parishad and appointment of veterinary graduates in animal rearing, treatment, health, reproduction, farm and hospital.
There are more than 1,700 vacant posts of veterinarians in the country but 50 percent students who had passed from the veterinary science department of RU since 2004 have remained unemployed, the students told the press conference.
The spread of diseases affecting feet and mouths of cattle, anthrax and bird flu could be checked or minimised if sufficient veterinarians were employed in the rural areas, the students said.
They alleged that the previous government pursued a policy of contractual appointments of veterinarians and this made the future of veterinary students insecure, they added.
The students called upon the government and authorities concerned to meet their demand as soon as possible.
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