Students of Dhaka Polytechnic Institute blocked roads in the capital's Satrasta area on Wednesday, causing severe traffic jams in Mohakhali, Banani, Moghbazar, Malibagh and Mouchak areas.

Eyewitnesses said that the students first gathered on the campus in the morning, then took out a procession towards the Satrasta intersection. They began the movement by blocking the road there at around 11:15 am.

The blockade has caused severe traffic congestion on nearby roads, forcing passengers to get off the vehicles and walk to their destinations.

The demands raised by the technical students are:

The maximum punishment must be ensured for those who publicly shot and threatened to slit the throats of diploma engineers by the Engineering Rights Movement; all activities conducted in support of the unreasonable three-point demands of B.Sc. engineering students must be immediately stopped by the state; the outline and recommendations of the reasonable six-point demands raised by the Technical Students' Movement of Bangladesh must be fully implemented; Engineering One-Channel Education must be introduced.