Dhaka, Oct. 13 -- Students of Dhaka College have staged protest programmes, leading a procession to the Central Shaheed Minar demanding the college keep its higher secondary study option and independence unchanged.

On Monday afternoon, the procession marched from the college campus to the Central Shaheed Minar, chanting objections to the published draft of the Central University ordinance.

Walid Hasan Rahim, a higher secondary student at Dhaka College, told bdnews24.com: "If the draft of the Dhaka Central University ordinance is implemented, Dhaka College may lose the study option of higher secondary level in the future. Higher secondary study is our tradition. We are staging a protest to maintain it."

"The draft ordinance does not men...