Students of Haji Danesh blocked the road demanding quota reform

Students of Haji Mohammad Danesh University of Science and Technology blocked the road today demanding quota reform. At 11:30 in front of the main gate of the university.

The students of Haji Mohammad Danesh University of Science and Technology of Dinajpur staged a protest on Sunday demanding four-point demands including reform of discriminatory quota system in government jobs, reinstatement of 2018 circular. Apart from this, they blocked the Dinajpur-Rangpur highway in front of the main gate of the university for half an hour.
Last Friday, the students of the university protested on the campus for the four-point demand. On Saturday afternoon, the students formed a human chain and protested in front of the main gate of the university amid the drizzle. Students started gathering at the main gate of the campus from 10 am today. Later, students blocked the highway at 11 pm. The police and local administration officials requested that their blockade be lifted. After half an hour the students left the road. Later they protested in some streets inside the university.

At this time, the students chanted slogans such as 'There is no place for discrimination, there is no place for discrimination in Bangabandhu's Bengal', 'Give news to the whole of Bengal, bury the quota system', 'Abolish the quota system, it must be done', 'Let the quota system be abolished, the meritorious should be freed' etc.

Sujan Roy, an 18th batch student of management department, said, 'Discriminatory quotas are a curse for a country. Where talented people do not get jobs based on merit, the workplace is being taken over by untalented people. Genuinely talented and poor students are being denied the opportunity to study in good universities. If this quota system continues, the next generation will be destroyed, the country will suffer from lack of talent.

Sanjida Ripa, a student of the 22nd batch of the Faculty of Business Studies, said that there are quotas everywhere, including jobs and entrance exams. Opportunities are being given to the less talented by depriving the talented. We want to maintain the circular of 2018 and form a commission and reform it by keeping a maximum quota of 10 percent in government jobs.

Milon Hossain, a student of the 17th batch of English department, said, "Even after the announcement of the National Parliament by the Prime Minister, the quota system is being propagated on the shoulders of the courts. We want to reform the quota system and give opportunities to the truly talented.