Students protest at Shyampur over tuition fee irregularities

Students of a school in Dhaka’s Shyampur have taken the streets in protest of the school collecting fees at the private school level despite its governmentalisation.

Traffic was brought to a halt on the Dhaka-Narayanganj highway after the students of Shyampur Government Model School and College blocked the streets at noon on Monday.

The government took over the school, which had previously been a private institution, about a year-and-a-half ago, students said.

But it is still collecting the same tuition fees as it did when it was a private institution, they said.

The protest is aimed at fixing this irregularity. 

The Shyampur Government Model School and College administration has not issued a statement on the protests.

Police have been deployed in the area.