Students stage demo protesting HSC results, several injured
Professor Tapan Kumar Sarkar, chairman of Dhaka Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board, said the students who failed to pass the examinations were staging protests.
Several students were injured in an attack allegedly by some staff of Dhaka Education Board when they were staging demonstration protesting the results of the HSC and its equivalent examinations through subject mapping.
Witnesses said a group of students under the banner of 'HSC-Batch 2024' entered the Dhaka Education Board premises today (20 October) and staged demonstration opposing the HSC results terming it 'discriminatory'.
Four of the injured were taken to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.
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Professor Tapan Kumar Sarkar, chairman of Dhaka Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board, said the students who failed to pass the examinations were staging protests.
Some students might have sustained injuries while vandalising rooms of the education board, he added.
On 15 October, the results of HSC and its equivalent examinations were published.
Terming the results as discriminatory the students demanded the government to publish the results through mapping of all subjects.
The students earlier gathered in front of the Central Shaheed Minar and marched towards the education board.
