RU Correspondent:

Rajshahi University(RU), Officers, Support Staff, General Staff, and the Transport Staff Association held a human chain at Paris Road, demanding Institutional facilities such as ward quota, today(6 January), Monday.

RU Officer Association President Mokhtar Hossen, Rajshahi University (RU) officials, and employees have announced that they will continue their agitation until the ward quota for admission to the first-year undergraduate admission test is reinstated.

Meanwhile, in the human chain, Deputy Registrar of Agriculture Project, Monowar Hossain, said, “The quota movement for rational reform of quotas. At that time, it was not said that quotas should be canceled, it was said that quotas should be reformed. There is a quota system in various universities, and law enforcement agencies, across the country. Therefore, we protest the cancellation of our institutional benefits and demand their reinstatement.”

Masud Rana, treasurer of the Rajshahi University Officers’ Association, said, “Our institutional facilities have been in place for a long time. Our children are admitted here based on merit. They fulfill the qualifications to apply for the university admission test. They are admitted here only after fulfilling all other qualifications. So we want our rights to be restored.’

Rajshahi University Officers’ Association Acting President, Moktar Hossain said, ‘Our only demand is our institutional rights. We will continue the movement until we get our institutional rights back.’ At the same time, he announced a sit-in program in front of the university’s administrative building from 11 am to 1 pm tomorrow.

At that time, about five hundred officers and employees participated in the human chain under the leadership of Rajshahi University Officers’ Association Office Secretary Riaz Uddin.

It is noted that last Wednesday, the administration decided to completely cancel the pet quota allocated for the children of teachers and officers in the Rajshahi University admission test and keep only a 1 percent quota for the children of auxiliary and general employees. But the students expressed dissatisfaction with this. They locked down the university’s administration building on Thursday and blockaded the office and staff, including the deputy vice-chancellor, for about 12 hours, demanding the complete abolition of the pet quota. Later that night, in the face of the movement, Vice-Chancellor Saleh Hasan Naqib announced the complete abolition of the pet quota.

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