Students of Barisal Nursing College continued demonstration for the second consecutive day yesterday and kept college principal in their confinement protesting a decision of turning their newly-built academic building into a female dormitory for the nearby Sher-e-Bangla Medical College. The agitating students demonstrated on both campuses demanding cancellation of the decision and making a female hostel there for them.
A tense situation has been prevailing on Nursing College and Sher-e-Bangla Medical College campuses since Monday when the students started the agitation programmes.
Campus sources said food and drinking water for the confined BNC principal were supplied by the agitated nursing students.
Smriti Hawladar Banya, a nursing students, said 550 female students of BNC living in only 160-seated hostel in a sub-human condition.
Health Ministry ignoring problems of students ordered to accommodate SBMC female students in a BNC building, she said.
When contacted, BNC Principal Aleya Begum over mobile phone said local public works department took the decision to ease the accommodation crisis of the SBMC although her students also have been facing the same problem. Public works department had handed over the newly constructed four-storied academic building to BNC on March 3, 2015.
SBMC Principal Dr Bhaskar Saha said the PWD some days ago directed to vacate one of their female hostels declaring it risky to reside and ordered to use just two floors of the four-storied BNC building primarily as long as the ongoing construction works of a new hostel for the SBMC female students does not completed.
