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23 May 2009, 18:00 PM

NATIONAL

RU Correspondent

Students of Engineering and Survey Institute in Rajshahi demonstrate on Sonadighi Road in the city yesterday.Photo: STAR

Students of Engineering and Survey Institute in Rajshahi yesterday staged a sit-in at Sonadighi crossing on busy Sonadighi road demanding immediate release of Comilla Survey Institute students. The demonstrators also urged the government to meet their four-point demand in a short time. On Wednesday last, at least 20 students of Comilla Survey Institute were injured in police attack on the institute campus when the students staged demonstration to press home their four-point demand. Police also arrested seven students from the spot. Yesterday morning, several hundred general students of Engineering and Survey Institute in Rajshahi under the banner of 'Students Development Committee' boycotted their classes and examinations and brought out a protest procession in the city. After parading different streets, they barricaded busy Sonadighi Road and staged a sit-in at Sonadighi crossing protesting police action on Comilla Survey Institute students and demanding their immediate release. The agitating students called on the government to immediately meet their four-point demand. The demand includes recognition of the survey institute students as diploma holders in job sector, their recruitment as survey diploma holder, sub-assistant settlement officer, deputy assistant land surveyor, building inspector, sub-assistant engineer (survey) and taxation officer and inclusion of modern technologies in their survey education. The sit-in caused serious traffic jam on Sonadighi Road. Later at a protest rally on the campus, the students announced boycotting classes and examinations until their four-point demand was met.