Bangladesh Students Protest l Updates, News & Discussion

[T-Rex]

It's just tip of the iceberg.

 

[Black_cats]

421 school decided to return to class

ক্লাসে ফেরার ঘোষণা দিল ৪২১ শিক্ষাপ্রতিষ্ঠানের শিক্ষার্থী

নিজস্ব প্রতিবেদক, ঢাকা
০৬ আগস্ট ২০১৮, ১৮:৫৯
আপডেট: ০৬ আগস্ট ২০১৮, ১৯:৩০

http://www.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/article/1548496/ক্লাসে-ফেরার-ঘোষণা-দিল-৪২১-শিক্ষাপ্রতিষ্ঠানের



কামরুন নাহার নামের এক অভিভাবক বলেন, ‘আমাদের সন্তানেরা ৯ দফা দাবিতে আন্দোলন করেছে। সরকার তাদের আন্দোলন মেনে নিয়েছে, আন্দোলনে সফল হয়েছে। আমরা ইতিহাস সৃষ্টি করেছি। এখন তাদের ক্লাসে ফেরার জন্য বোঝাতে সক্ষম হয়েছি।’

আনোয়ার হোসেন নামের আরেক অভিভাবক বলেন, ‘সরকারকে শিক্ষার্থীদের এই ৯ দফা দাবি যত দ্রুত সম্ভব বাস্তবায়ন করতে হবে। অন্যথায় সরকারের প্রতি বিশ্বাস ভেঙে যাবে।’
এ সময় ডিএসসিসির মেয়র মোহাম্মদ সাঈদ খোকন বলেন, ‘শিক্ষার্থীদের ৯ দফা দাবি বাস্তবায়নে সরকার বদ্ধপরিকর। ইতিমধ্যে অনেক দাবি বাস্তবায়ন করা হয়েছে। বাকিগুলো ধারাবাহিকভাবে দ্রুত সময়ে বাস্তবায়ন করা হবে। কারণ, এ দাবি শুধু শিক্ষার্থীদের নয়, দেশের জনগণের।’

পরে লেখক ও গবেষক সৈয়দ আবুল মকসুদ শিক্ষার্থীদের এই যৌক্তিক আন্দোলনকে সমর্থন জানিয়ে তাদের ক্লাসে ফেরার আহ্বান জানান।
অনুষ্ঠানে ঢাকা মহানগর দক্ষিণ আওয়ামী লীগের সাধারণ সম্পাদক শাহে আলম মুরাদ, ডিএসসিসির প্রধান নির্বাহী কর্মকর্তা খান মোহাম্মদ বিলালসহ ডিএসসিসির বিভিন্ন ওয়ার্ডের কাউন্সিলররা বক্তব্য দেন।

 

[Hakikat ve Hikmet]

It's just tip of the iceberg.

BD Muslims have a short span of patience!!! It took them just 3 years to figure out Mujib, his family and his cohorts, and they sorted them out accordingly!!! Who knows this time it might be that, if not significantly more, befitting too!!!!!

"You can fool some for all time, all for some time, but not all for all time" - President Abraham Lincoln

"Kufr continues, but not Zulm" - Hadis-i Sherif

 

[The Ronin]

Vehicle owners and drivers swarm BRTA

A huge number of vehicles wait in queues outside the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) while their owners and drivers obtain their necessary documents from BRTA office in Dhaka's Mirpur 13 on Monday, August 6, 2018 Dhaka Tribune
Following a weeklong student movement, people rush to obtain registration papers, fitness certificates and driving licences

In the backdrop of a student movement for safer roads, the number of applicants seeking driving licences and renewal of other necessary papers from Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has increased since last week.

According to officials, number of such applications increased in an unprecedented rate after thousands of school and college students took to streets and started checking driving licences and vehicle registration and fitness certificates since the death of two college students in a road accident in Dhaka on July 29.

Their movement had prompted the police and authorities to launch special drives. Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) also started Traffic Week from Sunday to ensure implementation of the traffic laws.

BRTA Assistant Director Ali Ahsan Milon on Monday told the Dhaka Tribune that they normally issue 150-200 new driving licences every day. “But since last Thursday, we issued up to 270-280 licences every day.”

He said the number of licence renewal also doubled over the past few days. “We usually renew 80-100 driving licences every day, but now the number is around 210. Also, general we issue 750-800 fitness certificates daily, but we are issuing 1,100-1,300 now.

“And because of the August 5-11 Traffic Week, the number of BRTA service seekers in total has nearly doubled in the last few days.”

During a visit to the BRTA office on Monday, more than 1,000 people were seen waiting in long queues at the counters on the premises since the morning for different reasons, including submission of necessary documents and fees.

Many owners and drivers also came to get their learner’s permit and register their vehicles.

Farhad Hossain from Badda said he was at BRTA to collect his learner permit as he was going to learn driving for professional purposes.

Jamal, a driver of Bahan Paribahan, said that his driving license had expired in January this year. “I am here to renew my licence immediately as my employer has said that otherwise I will be fired.”

Meanwhile, the BRTA has published advertisements on different national dailies urging people to renew all the necessary documents for their vehicles immediately. Otherwise, it has warned that the invalid driving licences, registration papers, fitness certificates and route permits would be cancelled right away whenever they are caught.

DMP’s Traffic Department filed 3,651 cases in the city along over violations of traffic rules on Sunday, the first day of Traffic Week.

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/dhaka/2018/08/06/vehicle-owners-and-drivers-swarm-brta/

The Prime Minister's Office on July 31 had also directed DMP and BRTA to take legal action against under-age drivers and those who drive without valid documents.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Lol the leftist swines in play on both sides

 

[AfrazulMandal]

Pls take ur trolling to somewhere else Pls or atleast try to do it subtly. It's quite evident from ur post that either u r a Liberal Muslim, atheist or hindu from west bengal who holds some grudge against fundamentalist Muslims.

I will try to be more subtle.

Atheist? Hindu? Me? Lol.

Pls take ur trolling to somewhere else Pls or atleast try to do it subtly. It's quite evident from ur post that either u r a Liberal Muslim, atheist or hindu from west bengal who holds some grudge against fundamentalist Muslims.

I will try to be more subtle.

Atheist? Hindu? Me? Lol.

 

[bluesky]

Somebody has to disarm these terrorists in police uniforms!

Police are mostly from the BCL cadres who were recruited under the FF quota. This is why BAL does not want to abolish the FF quota system.

 

[Śakra]

Seems more to it, is it really just because of a road accident?

Frustration from lack of development in their desh.

 

[bluesky]

Frustration from lack of development in their desh.

Our great asset @UKBengali will bite his teeth on your flesh for saying BD lacks development.

 

[Śakra]

Our great asset @UKBengali will bite his teeth on your flesh for saying BD lacks development.

If they were developing people wouldn’t mind lack of rights snd expression. There is no real, concrete growth in bd. You just got 4G internet while the rest of us are about to get 5G. Your roads are appaling and overpriced, building dilapidated, etc.

 

[Neptune_]

If they were developing people wouldn’t mind lack of rights snd expression. There is no real, concrete growth in bd. You just got 4G internet while the rest of us are about to get 5G. Your roads are appaling and overpriced, building dilapidated, etc.

What's the point of having a 4g connection if I may ask? What can't a 3g connection do that a 4g/5g connection can. Let's say u have a 4g connection but the price is so high that the common ppl can't afford to use it. Then what's the point of such connection ?

Just to let u know, we may not have 5g but broadband Internet is darn cheap in Bangladesh. Here u can get a decent 4 Mbps connection without any FUP for only 500/600 TAKA. If u want a dedicated IP u need to spend a bit more but even then its not that much.

 

[Tanveer666]

Frustration from lack of development in their desh.

Not necessarily, The protests are about increasing road saftey and attacks on general students by BCL;

Economically, things aren't THAT bad to warrant protests and such.

 

[Homo Sapiens]

Traffic police checking drivers' licences and other documents in different parts of the city. Photo: Star

 

[Nefarious]

Frustration from lack of development in their desh.

I have a friend here who came from Bangladesh and did a law degree here. He recently qualified and returned to Dhaka to pursue politics (fathers wish/orders)...he just had fake charges put on him and got locked up. Came running back to the U.K.

 

[El Sidd]

Traffic police checking drivers' licences and other documents in different parts of the city. Photo: Star

Why do you need 10 men to check one license? With all the development and specially E-development, it can be done with 1 man and 1 machine.

Why is Bangladesh a police state?