Monday's Incident at RU Fine Arts Dept
Class boycott by teachers on
Teachers of fine arts department at Rajshahi University (RU) continued their class boycott programme for the second day yesterday demanding exemplary punishment to the students who confined proctor, department chairman and three teachers to office and classroom on Monday.
In a meeting at fine arts department on Wednesday with department chairman Prof Abdul Matin Talukdar in the chair, the teachers decided to continue class boycott programme until their demand was met.
They also submitted a memorandum to Vice-Chancellor Prof Abdus Sobhan on Wednesday, the first day of the programme, protesting the incident and demanding punishment to those involved.
The students of fine arts department on Monday confined Proctor Prof Chowdhury Zakaria, department Chairman Abdul Matin Talukdar and three teachers to office and classroom protesting abrupt increase in fees for filling up examination forms.
The university authorities recently hiked the fees for filling up final year examination forms of the students of 2006-07 session from Tk 350 to
Tk 3,030.
The agitating students also vandalised the department's windows, notice board and furniture and burnt an effigy of the department chairman.
Prof Abdul Matin Talukdar told this correspondent yesterday that they would continue their class boycott programme until the students involved in Monday's incident were punished.
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