Staff Reporter :
A teacher of Dhaka University’s Economics Department staged a sit-in on Thursday in front of the department chairman’s room demanding the authorities concerned to allow him to go back to classroom. Rushad Faridi, an assistant professor of the department, was holding a placard inscribing, “I’m a teacher, let me go back to classroom”, has gone viral on social media.
Faridi was sent on forced leave on July 13, 2017 following a syndicate meeting without issuing any show cause notice after a number of teachers of the department brought some allegations against Rushad and refused to work with him.
Rushad Faridi told UNB that he was sent on forced leave over ‘baseless and false’ allegations without any prior notice. “After the High Court order, I’ve sent an application to join the department. But the department refused to receive my application and told me that they’ve nothing to do unless there’s any permission from the higher authorities of the university” he said.
