Staff Reporter :
Responding to the direction of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to eliminate corruption from the education sector, the Education Ministry has already started its action against corruption.
The top bosses of the Ministry have brought all the officials under surveillance to identify the corrupt staff.
Terming the education sector as most corrupted, the ACC has sent a letter recently to the Education Ministry to take proper action against the unscrupulous officials to make the Ministry as well as the education sector corruption-free.
An official of the ACC wishing anonymity told The New Nation on Friday that the anti-corruption watchdog has found many irregularities in the education sector. Most of the officials, especially officials of the audit department, are directly involved with the corruption.
Education Secretary Sohrab Hossain said that Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid and other top officials are determined to remove corruption from the education sector.
“We are bound to serve the country. No patriot official can involve in any kind of
corruption. If any one is found in such activities we will not tolerate it,” he warned.
The secretary said, “No corruption will be allowed in the ministry as well as the education sector. Please don’t try to practice corruption here. If it is your habit, you should try to go another sector.”
On May 3, two officials (Swapan Kumar Gosh, Joint Chief of Planning Wing, and Imrul Mohsin, Deputy Chief of the wing were asked not to join office until further notice.
The Ministry has taken the decision after a written complaint from the Khulna University (KU) Vice-Chancellor as they demanded Tk 10 lakh for evaluating the university’s infrastructure project.
The Education Ministry opened an investigation into an allegation headed by Ashoke Kumar Biswas, Additional Secretary of Technical Wing of the ministry and asked to submit a report in the shortest possible time, the ministry sources said.
The Ministry and KU sources said these two ministry officials incorporated the component of a remuneration of Tk 10 lakh in the Revised Development Project Proforma (RDPP) as mid-term evaluation without informing the education secretary.
The four-year project was launched in 2010 at a cost of Tk 80 crore, but its term was extended twice as the fund was not released on time. The project cost stands at around Tk 86 crore, said KU officials.
Responding to the direction of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to eliminate corruption from the education sector, the Education Ministry has already started its action against corruption.
The top bosses of the Ministry have brought all the officials under surveillance to identify the corrupt staff.
Terming the education sector as most corrupted, the ACC has sent a letter recently to the Education Ministry to take proper action against the unscrupulous officials to make the Ministry as well as the education sector corruption-free.
An official of the ACC wishing anonymity told The New Nation on Friday that the anti-corruption watchdog has found many irregularities in the education sector. Most of the officials, especially officials of the audit department, are directly involved with the corruption.
Education Secretary Sohrab Hossain said that Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid and other top officials are determined to remove corruption from the education sector.
“We are bound to serve the country. No patriot official can involve in any kind of
corruption. If any one is found in such activities we will not tolerate it,” he warned.
The secretary said, “No corruption will be allowed in the ministry as well as the education sector. Please don’t try to practice corruption here. If it is your habit, you should try to go another sector.”
On May 3, two officials (Swapan Kumar Gosh, Joint Chief of Planning Wing, and Imrul Mohsin, Deputy Chief of the wing were asked not to join office until further notice.
The Ministry has taken the decision after a written complaint from the Khulna University (KU) Vice-Chancellor as they demanded Tk 10 lakh for evaluating the university’s infrastructure project.
The Education Ministry opened an investigation into an allegation headed by Ashoke Kumar Biswas, Additional Secretary of Technical Wing of the ministry and asked to submit a report in the shortest possible time, the ministry sources said.
The Ministry and KU sources said these two ministry officials incorporated the component of a remuneration of Tk 10 lakh in the Revised Development Project Proforma (RDPP) as mid-term evaluation without informing the education secretary.
The four-year project was launched in 2010 at a cost of Tk 80 crore, but its term was extended twice as the fund was not released on time. The project cost stands at around Tk 86 crore, said KU officials.
