02:21Multiple students were injured as clashes erupted in the capital, Dhaka, between students and job seekers protesting the government job quota system and members of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the ruling party's student wing on Monday.
Footage shows both sides hurling bricks, and stones, and wielding cricket bats at each other, resulting in at least dozens of injuries, with 12 admitted to the hospital.
The protests, demanding reformation of the government's quota hiring system for jobs in the public sector, involved students from various institutions, including Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka Medical College, Eden Mohila College, Dhaka College, Badrunnesa Government Mohila College, Dhaka Nursing College, and others.
According to local media, protests are part of an ongoing simultaneous pension reform strike by public university teachers nationwide, demanding improvement in the academic situation, causing classes, examinations, and official work to halt.
Of the current 56 percent quota, 30 percent of all jobs in the public sector are reserved for the families of persons who participated in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. Another 10 percent are reserved for women, 10 percent for districts based on population, five percent for ethnic minorities and one percent for people with disabilities.
Multiple injured as students demanding quota reforms clash with pro-govt BCL at Dhaka University campus
Multiple students were injured as clashes erupted in the capital, Dhaka, between students and job seekers protesting the government job quota system and members of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the ruling party's student wing on Monday.
Footage shows both sides hurling bricks, and stones, and wielding cricket bats at each other, resulting in at least dozens of injuries, with 12 admitted to the hospital.
The protests, demanding reformation of the government's quota hiring system for jobs in the public sector, involved students from various institutions, including Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka Medical College, Eden Mohila College, Dhaka College, Badrunnesa Government Mohila College, Dhaka Nursing College, and others.
According to local media, protests are part of an ongoing simultaneous pension reform strike by public university teachers nationwide, demanding improvement in the academic situation, causing classes, examinations, and official work to halt.
Of the current 56 percent quota, 30 percent of all jobs in the public sector are reserved for the families of persons who participated in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. Another 10 percent are reserved for women, 10 percent for districts based on population, five percent for ethnic minorities and one percent for people with disabilities.
Multiple students were injured as clashes erupted in the capital, Dhaka, between students and job seekers protesting the government job quota system and members of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the ruling party's student wing on Monday.
Footage shows both sides hurling bricks, and stones, and wielding cricket bats at each other, resulting in at least dozens of injuries, with 12 admitted to the hospital.
The protests, demanding reformation of the government's quota hiring system for jobs in the public sector, involved students from various institutions, including Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka Medical College, Eden Mohila College, Dhaka College, Badrunnesa Government Mohila College, Dhaka Nursing College, and others.
According to local media, protests are part of an ongoing simultaneous pension reform strike by public university teachers nationwide, demanding improvement in the academic situation, causing classes, examinations, and official work to halt.
Of the current 56 percent quota, 30 percent of all jobs in the public sector are reserved for the families of persons who participated in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. Another 10 percent are reserved for women, 10 percent for districts based on population, five percent for ethnic minorities and one percent for people with disabilities.