Dhaka, April 29 -- Students have enforced a "shutdown" of the Dhaka Polytechnic Institute by locking the campus gates as part of their ongoing movement to press home their charter of six demands.

Around 11:30am on Tuesday, the students put padlocks on several entrances of the campus.

The Karigori Chhhatra Andolon (Technical Students' Movement), the platform leading the protest, said that similar shutdown programmes are being observed at polytechnic institutes across the country, including in Chapainawabganj, Kushtia, Jhenaidah, Lakshmipur, Rajshahi, and Chattogram.

After locking the gates at the Dhaka Polytechnic Institute, protest leader Mashfik Islam Dewan briefed students at the Medha Shaheed Chattar on campus.

"Although the Techni...