Demand for Accommodation in Hostel
Eden students confine its principal, teachers for 15hrs
4 hurt in attack by BCL leaders, hostel staff
Some students of Eden Women's College confined its over 20 teachers, including the principal, to the administrative building for over 15 hours yesterday demanding an end to the college's accommodation crisis.
The teachers came out with police assistance around 1:30am today.
Four students were also injured in an attack by the college unit Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leaders and hostel staff. The agitators later vandalised the college buildings.
Some 400 of the agitators, in their honours final year, had locked the teachers in the building and laid siege to it from around 10:00am yesterday.
The attack took place when the agitators were coming out of the building around 10:00pm on releasing the teachers, who agreed to resolve the accommodation problem, said witnesses. Protesting the attack, the agitators again confined the teachers to the building.
The norm is that students are provided accommodation in the hostels from second year and must leave after completing their honours exams. They can reapply for accommodation during their masters, said the agitators.
The BCL leaders illegally provide the masters students accommodation in the hostel in exchange for Tk 6,000 to Tk 7,000, said one student, requesting anonymity.
The students asked the college authorities for continuous accommodation till their masters exam but to no avail, said the agitators.
The principal, Rowshan Ara, said the education secretary assured her of meeting the demand.
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