Internet service is excluded in non-cooperation movement

Student ongoing Movement against Discrimination has called for a nationwide 'total non-cooperation movement' from Sunday. They have given a set of urgent instructions to the students to make this movement a success. However, in this directive, Internet is included as an 'emergency service' along with transportation of medicine and medical equipment, ambulance service, fire service, mass media, transportation of daily necessities.

According to the instructions, internet services like emergency services, emergency relief assistance and transport services for officials and employees working in this sector will continue. As the internet sector is excluded in the 15 point list of non-cooperation, all the offices of this sector will remain open and there is no restriction on paying the bills required to keep it running including internet bills.

Nahid Islam and Asif Mahmud, one of the coordinators of the anti-discrimination student movement, gave these instructions on Saturday (August 3) on social media.

At the same time, Nahid Islam, Md. Mahin and several others were seen posting on Facebook by writing 'Student-People Mass Uprising'.

The instructions set by the students movement are:

1. No one shall pay any tax or duty.

2. Do not pay any kind of bill including electricity bill, gas bill, water bill.

3. All public and private institutions, offices, courts and factories will remain closed. None of you will go to the office, collect the salary at the end of the month.

4. Activities of educational institutions will be closed.

5. Expatriates shall not send any kind of remittance to the country through banking channels.

6. All kinds of government meetings, seminars, events will be boycotted.

7. Port workers will not attend work. Will not load or unload any product.

8. No factory in the country will work, garment workers will not go to work.

9. Public transport will be closed; workers will not go to work.

10. Banks will be open every Sunday for urgent personal transactions.

11. Policemen shall not go on any kind of protocol duty, riot duty and protest duty other than routine duty. Only police station will do regular police routine work.

12. All offshore transactions will be closed so that not a single taka can be smuggled out of the country.

13. Forces other than BGB and Navy will not perform duty outside the cantonment. BGB and Navy will be in barracks and coastal areas.

14. Bureaucrats will not go to the secretariat, DC or Upazila officials will not go to their respective offices.

15. Luxury goods stores, showrooms, commercial outlets, hotels, motels, restaurants will remain closed.