Students reject VC’s proposal to publish result by Feb

Students of seven Dhaka University affiliated colleges threatened to go for further agitation rejecting the vice-chancellor’s proposal for publishing the results by February 25.

The students have been demanding the results of the second-year final examination held in January last year to be published by this month.

Vehicular movement through Nilkhet intersection in Dhaka comes to a complete standstill on Thursday, January 18, 2018, as hundreds of students of seven Dhaka University affiliated colleges block the road since this morning demanding publication of second-year exam results. Photo: Star

Around 11:30am, about three hundred students of 2014-15 session blocked Nilkhet Intersection, halting all sorts of traffic movement in the area, our DU correspondent reports from the spot.

The VC reached Nilkhet intersection around 1:45pm and assured them of publishing the results by February 25.

But the students rejected the proposal and threatened to go for tough programme from February 1 if the authorities fail to publish the results by this month, Toufiq Mahmud, a third year student of Dhaka College 2014-15 session, told The Daily Star.

The VC also assured the students to hold the third-year honours final year examination for 2014-15 session as soon as possible whilst the students demanded the examinations to be held by March.

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Vehicular movement through the intersection resumed after the students freed the road soon after the VC left the spot.

Following the blockade, a huge traffic jam was created on all four connecting roads of the intersection. The protesters are also seen blocking pedestrians from their way crossing the intersection.

In a five-point demand, the protesting students demanded the publication of the second-year result by January.

The other demands include:

• Third-year honours final year examination for 2014-15 session should be held by March.
• Publication of an academic calendar for the seven affiliated colleges.
• All examinations of 2012-13 sessions should be held as soon as possible.
• All the examinations of the sessions under degree pass course should be held and its results published as early as possible.