The country's diploma engineers have placed a four-point demand to resolve their professional issues.
Their demands include the continuation of their existing four-year course instead of the newly proposed three-year one.
Their other demands are: amending the clauses and sub-clauses added in the BNBC-2020, providing special increments, increasing the promotion quota to 50 per cent from the existing 25 per cent and solving the problems of diploma engineers working in the private sector, regularising teachers of polytechnics, TSC, SSC (Voc) and TTC, promotion, Skills and Training Enhancement Project (STEP) and increasing scholarships and industrial training allowances for students.
The demands were made at a rally organised by Diploma Engineers Chhatro Shikkhok Peshajibi Sangram Parishad, a protesting platform of the diploma engineers, students, teachers and professionals, held at the Central Shaheed Minar in the capital on Sunday.
The Convenor of the Sangram Parishad Fazlur Rahman Khan presided over the rally while President of Institute of Diploma Engineers Bangladesh (IDEB) AKMA Hamid, its General Secretary Md Shamsur Rahman, President of Bangabandhu Diploma Engineering Council Khabir Hossain, its General Secretary AKM Abdul Motaleb, General Secretary of Dhaka Polytechnic Teachers Association Zillur Rahman, Member Secretary of Dhaka District Branch of Sangram Parishad Shahadat Hossain Hawladar, among others, spoke.
After the rally, the Sangram Parishad members also submitted a memorandum in this regard to the prime minister at her office in the city.
