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ELEVEN-POINT DEMANDS OF THE EAST PAKISTAN STUDENTS' ALL-PARTY COMMITTEE OF ACTION (5 January 1970)

1. (a) Restoration of provincialized colleges to their original status.
(b) Extension in number of schools. and colleges.
(c) Night shift arrangements. in Provincial colleges.
(d) Fifty per cent reduction in tuition fees.
(e) Bengali as a medium of instruction as well as work in all. offices.
(f) hostel charges. to be subsidized by 50 per cent.
(g) Increase in salaries of teachers.
(h) Free and compulsory education up to Class VIII.
(i) Medical University to be set up and Medical Council Ordinance to be withdrawn.
(j) Facilities. for condensed course for Polytechnic students.
(k) Train and bus concessions.
(l) Job opportunity guarantee.
(m) Repeal of University Ordinance and full autonomy for Universities.
(n) Repeal of National Education Commission and Hamoodur Rahman Reports.
2. Parliamentary democracy on the bass of universal franchise.
3. (a) Federal form of government and sovereign legislature.
(b) Federal Government's powers to be confined to defence, foreign policy and currency.
4. Sub-federation of Baluchistan, North West Frontier Province and Sind with regional autonomy
for each unit.
5. Nationalization of banks, insurance companies and all big industries.
6. Reduction in rates of taxes and revenues on peasants.
7. Fair wages and bonus for workers.
8. Flood control measures for East Pakistan.
9. Withdrawal of all emergency laws, security acts and other prohibitive orders.
10. Quit SEATO, CENTO and Pakistan-U.S. military pacts.
11. Release of all detainees and political prisoners including those of Agartala Conspiracy Case.