Sylhet Agricultural University students on Sunday locked the administrative building as part of their continued movement demanding adjustment in the existing credit system.
The agitating students also resisted a team of police from entering the campus at the main entrance at noon as the university authorities called for the law-enforcers to tackle the situation.
Campus sources said more than five hundred students of the first and second semester under different faculties staged a sit-in in front of the academic building at about 10:00am, boycotting classes and scheduled examinations to press home their demand.
The students at about 11:30am locked the main gate of the building, confining the vice-chancellor, along with others, for about two hours till 1:30pm.
The university authorities called the Kotwali police to take the situation under control, but the students stopped the policemen at the main entrance at noon when they tried to enter the campus.
At a rally in front of the administrative building, the student representative claimed the existing credit system was discriminatory.
The system, which was launched in the 2009-10 session, does not allow a student's promotion if he/she fails in more than 20 per cent examinations of the credit courses in a semester.
But the system is much more relaxed at other public agricultural universities in the country, the student representatives claimed.
They vowed to continue the movement boycotting academic activities until their demand for fixing the credit limit at 40 per cent instead of 20 per cent was met.
The university student welfare-affairs adviser Jamal Uddin Bhuiyan asked the students to send their representatives to the authorities to discuss their demand.
But the students refused the proposal, saying they would consider sitting with the authorities, if they would sit with all the students.
The students, however, postponed their demonstration at around 1:30pm as the authorities agreed to sit with all the students.
'We will sit in a meeting among ourselves in the evening to fix the time of the meeting with the authorities,' a student said, seeking anonymity.
Source : New Age
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