Vice-chancellors ask government to release students
Vice-chancellors of the private universities on Wednesday urged the government declare a general amnesty for students arrested for taking part in movement for road safety.
The call came on Wednesday during a view exchange meeting with the education ministry andthe University Grants Commission (UGC). Addressing the meeting, Minister Nurul Islam Nahid, however, said it’s not the call of his office.
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“If the students have committed offence, then the law-enforcers will take action. But if someone is not found guilty, then he will be released,” he said.
‘We also do not want any harassment to any innocent students. But legal actions will be taken against those who will be proved as culprits,’ Nahid said while taking part in a views exchange programme with vice chancellors of private universities in the capital.
Education ministry’s secondary and higher education division and University Grants Commission organised the programme in the wake of student protests demanding safe road and justice for their fellow student of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College killed by a bus on July 29.
Earlier, World University of Bangladesh vice-chancellor Abdul Mannan Choudhury, Eastern University vice-chancellor Aminul Hoque, Hamdard University Bangladesh vice-chancellor Abdul Mannan, Primeasia University vice-chancellor Abdul Hannan Chowdhury and others demanded general amnesty for students arrested with connection of protests.
‘We cannot spare anyone who spread rumours, who went to there [in protest] intentionally. Law will follow its own course. We cannot say that the culprits will not face legal action’ Nahid said.
Nurul Islam Nahid urged VCs to take steps to motivate students to send them back to classes. ‘Along with pro-VCs, treasurers, registrars and others teacher take immediate steps to bring back all students to class rooms. You can also engage members of trustee board in the job’ Nahid urged VCs.
‘VCs should take responsibilities. They should engage guardians’
‘You need to control students, you should keep them on right track. If you cannot keep them on right track, you might be accountable. None of us are above the accountability,’ he said.
Nahid said he was surprised as the students of some private universities took to the street on August 6 when all students of school and colleges went back to classes leaving their protest.