Diploma engineers’ blockade halts Dhaka’s rail links with Mymensingh, Rajshahi

Diploma engineers and diploma students blocked railway tracks in Gazipur on Monday to protest the 33 percent quota for BSc engineers in the recruitment of sub-assistant engineers and to press their five-point demand.

The protesters blocked the railway tracks at Bhurulia in the city, halting train communication on Dhaka-Rajshahi and Dhaka-Mymensingh routes, reports UNB.

Earlier, they gathered at Bhurulia Mist intersection and brought out a procession which paraded through Shimultoli-Gazipur road.

Quaiyum Ali, Officer-in-Charge of Joydebpur Railway Station Police Outpost, said several trains including Banalata Express, Rangpur Express, Chapai Express and Teesta Express remained stranded at different stations due to the blockade.