{"id":738,"date":"2018-05-14T10:15:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T10:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.jobanmagazine.com\/en\/?p=738"},"modified":"2018-05-14T10:49:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T10:49:52","slug":"quota-protesters-seeking-immediate-gazette-shahbagh-intersection-blocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.jobanmagazine.com\/en\/2018\/05\/14\/quota-protesters-seeking-immediate-gazette-shahbagh-intersection-blocked\/","title":{"rendered":"Quota protesters blocked Shahbagh, seeking immediate issuance of gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quota protesters have blocked the Shahbagh intersection demanding immediate issuance of gazette abolishing quota system in government jobs.<\/p>\n<p>According to witnesses, the protesters halted traffic at the intersection around 1:30pm on Monday while staging demonstrations, creating huge traffic congestion at Shahbagh and its nearby areas.<\/p>\n<p>Students of different colleges and universities along with several thousand job seekers brought out a procession from Shahbagh intersection around 11am as a part of their scheduled programme.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also read-\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.jobanmagazine.com\/en\/2018\/04\/11\/why-the-quota-reforms-demand-cant-be-ignored-anymore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why the quota reforms demand can\u2019t be ignored anymore<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Besides, an indefinite class and examination boycott programme at colleges and universities across the country is underway as the government failed to publish a gazette abolishing the quota system in government jobs by the deadline provided by quota protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Students, under the banner of Bangladesh Shadharan Chhatra Odhikar Sangrakkhan Parishad, launched the movement on February 17 over their five-point demand including reducing the quota privilege to 10 percent from 56.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students, under the banner of Bangladesh Shadharan Chhatra Odhikar Sangrakkhan Parishad, launched the movement on February 17 over their five-point demand including reducing the quota privilege to 10 percent from 56 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.jobanmagazine.com\/en\/2018\/05\/14\/quota-protesters-seeking-immediate-gazette-shahbagh-intersection-blocked\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[78,153,154,155,156],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-bangladesh","tag-quota","tag-protest","tag-quota-reform","tag-shahbagh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.jobanmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.jobanmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.jobanmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.jobanmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.jobanmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dev.jobanmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/dev.jobanmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.jobanmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.jobanmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.jobanmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.jobanmagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}