Demand for Exam Rescheduling
15 HSC candidates wounded as police use batons
At least 15 candidates in the upcoming Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations were injured as police used batons during their protest demanding rescheduling of the exams yesterday.
Police also picked up at least eight candidates from in front of Dhaka Education Board where around 500 students were staging a sit-in. They, however, were released later.
The science group students of different colleges in the city have been demanding changes to the examination routine since the government published it last week.
At a human chain on Saturday, they said the examinations of science group would end within 29 days while the other groups would get 50 days.
Yesterday, the agitating students gathered at the office of the education board in Bakshi Bazar around 12:00pm and staged the sit-in, according to witnesses and demonstrators.
They also submitted a memorandum to Prof Fahima Khatun, chairman of the board, who assured the students of taking steps, the sources said.
The agitating students said that around 4:30pm, a police official arrived at the scene and started misbehaving with one of them.
“As we protested the misbehaviour, police started charging baton on us and picked up eight candidates”, said a student of Birshrestha Munshi Abdur Rouf Rifles College.
Contacted, Prof Fahima Khatun claimed that a significant number of the demonstrators are not regular students and they did not come for any solution.
“Most of them are from coaching centres, and some outsiders involved in politics are instigating the incident”, she said, adding that the ministry could only take decision regarding the change.
According to the current routine, the HSC examinations will begin on April 1.
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