The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Rajshahi

An indefinite strike enforced by Rajshahi University employees demanding regularization of their jobs disrupted all academic and administrative activities for a second day yesterday.

Sources said about 200 class-four employees of the university called indefinite strike on Sunday night as their appointments, said to be superfluous, were postponed by government orders.

Before going on strike, they demonstrated on the campus and ransacked the RU VC's residence on Sunday night shortly after they came to know about the action putting their jobs on hold.

The striking employees also brought out processions on the campus on the second day, slanting slogans for regularization of their jobs.

"The RU administrative activities came to a total halt today. Besides, no buses or rickshaws did ply on the strike-bound campus, which looked desolate," says a campus report.

The Education Ministry and the University Grants Commission withheld the controversial appointments of 544 employees. They were appointed on temporary basis against 255 posts in 2004 without prior circular. Later, some 200 of the employees were reinstated.