The Anti-Discrimination Student Movement has issued a set of emergency instructions to enforce their non-cooperation movement, urging freedom-loving students and citizens to comply.
Asif Mahmud, one of the coordinators of the movement, announced the instructions in a Facebook post on Saturday (3 August).
The instructions are as follows:
- Do not pay any taxes or duties.
- Do not pay any bills, including electricity, gas, and water bills.
- All government and private institutions, offices, courts, and factories will remain closed. Do not go to the office, but collect your salary at the end of the month.
- Educational institutions will remain closed.
- Expatriates should not send remittances through banking channels.
- Boycott all government meetings, seminars, and events.
- Port workers should not join work or unload any goods.
- No factories in the country should operate, and garment workers should not go to work.
- Public transportation will be halted, and workers should not go to work.
- Banks will be open every Sunday for urgent personal transactions.
- Police officers should not perform any protocol, riot, or protest duties except for routine station work.
- No money should be smuggled out of the country, and all offshore transactions should be halted.
- Except for the BGB and Navy, other forces will not perform duties outside the cantonment. BGB and Navy personnel will stay in barracks and coastal areas.
- Bureaucrats should not go to the Secretariat, and DC or Upazila officers should not go to their offices.
- Luxury goods shops, showrooms, shopping malls, hotels, motels, and restaurants will remain closed.
- Hospitals, pharmacies, emergency transportation services such as medicine and medical equipment transport, ambulance services, fire services, media, essential goods transport, urgent internet services, emergency relief support, and transportation for personnel in these sectors will remain operational.
Shops selling essential goods will be open from 11am to 1pm.
