The Rajshahi Nursing College students on Tuesday enforced indefinite strike on campus to push for several demands, especially the stipend they receive each month should be increased.
Their others demands include solution to the teacher, classroom and educational apparatus crisis, to ensure the security of nurses and to reduce the working time from six hours to four hours.
The girl students of the college brought out a procession at about 10:00am to draw support for the strike and later held a rally.
The strikers said they would continue the strike until their demands were met.
They complained that the stipend they received was very poor and they were getting only Tk 850 for each month for last 19 years.
They said most of the students were from working class families and it was very difficult for
them to manage their education with the small amount of money in present condition.
The speakers demanded Tk 3,000 minimum stipend.
They complained that their demands were not met though they staged demonstrations earlier to push for their demands.
The college principal, Sadeka Khatun, however, admitted the crisis and said all nursing colleges in the country face same crisis.
The government should make steps to resolve the crisis and no single college could do anything.
Source : New Age
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