M M Jasim/Abir Rayhan :
Dhaka University is contemplating taking legal action against 60 teachers who were earlier sacked for staying abroad after completing higher studies. They were also served notices to return the money they owed to the varsity, but did not respond. So the legal actions are being considered.
They went abroad for higher studies and pledged that they would come back after attaining degrees. Dhaka University also believed them and provided all kinds of support including financial support as they would be asset of the university on return. But they hurt the university as they never came back and even did not return the loan which they took from the university.
The number of the teachers is 60. They went abroad in different years and they now collectively owe the university a total of Tk 4.38 crore.
Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University Professor AAMS Areifn Siddique told The New Nation on Sunday that they would take legal action to recover the money.
“We gave them enough time to send back the money. But they did not respond. So we have no option but to go to the court,” the VC said.
He said the rate of interest would increase continuously until the teachers would pay the money back.
He also claimed that the teachers received the salary in violation of service rules.
Dhaka University sources said that the varsity authorities requested the teachers several times to come back to the university, but they did not replay.
The authorities also warned, if the teachers do not come back the DU would sack them from the university. They defied the warning.
The DU also published advertisement in several national newspapers in this regard earlier.
Ultimately, the DU sacked them and closed all the doors of the university for them. The University also failed to recover money, which it provided to the sacked teachers as loan.
When a permanent teacher goes abroad on education leave; he gets salary for the first four years. Next two years, he doesn’t get salary. Once in abroad, most of these teachers either did not maintain any communication with the university, or submitted resignations after four years.’
Meanwhile, academicians have termed it unethical and cheating with university as well as the country. They also said that the teachers have no patriotism.
Professor Emeritus Serajul Islam Chowdhury told The New Nation on Sunday evening, “The teachers who were sacked recently from the DU have no morality. They also have no patriotism. They went to abroad for higher degrees and after attaining they stayed there. They never thought that they should come back to the university to serve the country. They are just cheater,” he said.
Serajul Islam Chowdhury said that the DU should take legal action against the teachers as early as possible.
Professor Syed Anwar Hossain of History Department of Dhaka University said, no teacher who has minimum morality can swindle the university’s money. The university gave them privileges to go abroad for higher studies, but they cheated which is unexpected and undesirable.
“They have no feelings to serve the country. That is why they are staying in the abroad. They just want money, otherwise nothing. It is happening due to lack of patriotism also,” he said.
Top 20 defaulting teachers, among the 60, are former Bengali Department teacher Aminur Rahman (Tk 38,12,244), Electrical and Electronics Engineering teacher Sheikh Mohammad Ali (Tk 30,44,182), Arabic Department teacher Mahmud Bin Sayed (Tk 10,22,884), Information Science and Library Management teacher Hanif Uddin (Tk 10,95,082), Accounting and Information System teachers Arifur Rahman (Tk 14,21,103) and Mohammad Nurul Huq (TK 11,38,307), Molecular Science teacher Alamgir Rahaman (Tk 12,48,082), Anthropology teacher Tania Sharmin (Tk 10,10,941), Geography and Environment teachers Mostaim Billah (Tk 12,46,083) and Nasrin Islam Khan (Tk 8,93,091), Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering teacher Aminul Islam Mollik (Tk 15,84,287), Mathematics teacher Kazi Aminur Rahman (Tk 10,00,172), Health Economics Institute teachers Hosne Ara Begum (Tk 15,20,310) and Sheikh Mohammad Shahid Uddin Eskander (Tk 8,97,457), Economics teacher Khondokar Mohammad Istiak (Tk 13,02,985), Law teacher Tanzim Afroz (Tk 10,23,352), English teacher Monoy Zafar (Tk 9,34,268), Public Administration teacher Mohammad Eisan (Tk 9,04,689), Institution of Education and Research teacher Shaila Banu (Tk 8,95,783) and Computer Science and Engineering teacher Shahed Anwar (Tk 8,30,212).
