RU Correspondent :
Some 50 senior teachers of Rajshahi University have left the residential quarters while 45-47 quarters are laying still vacant for a long time.
As the rent has been increased two times, no new facility has been added in the last 50 years, alleged some teachers.
The university is falling down financial crisis and teachers are facing safety problem as they stay outside of the campus, sources said.
Teachers sources, these building was built before 50 years ago where no repairing tasks have been done yet without painting in the wall. Attached toilets are insanitary that create odour pollution and scraped instruments are on washing room that made the residents irritated.
Prof. Istik Hossain, a senior professor of the Fisheries Department, said: “We can live in the most luxurious area of Rajshahi at half this rent. That’s why most senior officials of the campus are leaving the university residential quarters”.
Some leaders of Rajshahi University Teachers Association (RUTA) said, “We tried our best to solve this problem with the assistance of RU authority one more time but no initiative has been taken yet.
University sources said that there are 319 quarters on the first, second and third floors-categorised into A, B, and C-for the teachers and officers of the university. Among these quarters, the rent of 60 have been fixed for four years. The rent for the remaining 259 quarters is directly deducted from the salary, as per government rules.
Apart from this, there are 138 buildings for the third- and fourth-grade staff of the varsity. Of these, the rent of 88 houses is fixed and that of the remaining 50 is deducted from salaries.
University finance and book keeping office sources, according to the government gazette, the university is getting house rent at a rate of 55 per cent of salary scale between Tk. 8,250 and Tk. 9,700, 50 per cent from those with Tk 9,701-16000, 45 per cent from those with Tk 16,001-35,501 and 40 per cent from those with salaries above Tk 35,501.
Many senior teachers end up paying Tk. 35,000 to Tk. 40,000 as house rent, which is considered as highly expensive in Rajshahi, where the cost of living is among the lowest in the country.
Professor Dr Md Saiful Islam Faruki, Convenor , Residential Quarter Allotment Committee said, we prepared a report including this problem by forming a committee but RU authority denied the report at the time of submitting it.
Some 50 senior teachers of Rajshahi University have left the residential quarters while 45-47 quarters are laying still vacant for a long time.
As the rent has been increased two times, no new facility has been added in the last 50 years, alleged some teachers.
The university is falling down financial crisis and teachers are facing safety problem as they stay outside of the campus, sources said.
Teachers sources, these building was built before 50 years ago where no repairing tasks have been done yet without painting in the wall. Attached toilets are insanitary that create odour pollution and scraped instruments are on washing room that made the residents irritated.
Prof. Istik Hossain, a senior professor of the Fisheries Department, said: “We can live in the most luxurious area of Rajshahi at half this rent. That’s why most senior officials of the campus are leaving the university residential quarters”.
Some leaders of Rajshahi University Teachers Association (RUTA) said, “We tried our best to solve this problem with the assistance of RU authority one more time but no initiative has been taken yet.
University sources said that there are 319 quarters on the first, second and third floors-categorised into A, B, and C-for the teachers and officers of the university. Among these quarters, the rent of 60 have been fixed for four years. The rent for the remaining 259 quarters is directly deducted from the salary, as per government rules.
Apart from this, there are 138 buildings for the third- and fourth-grade staff of the varsity. Of these, the rent of 88 houses is fixed and that of the remaining 50 is deducted from salaries.
University finance and book keeping office sources, according to the government gazette, the university is getting house rent at a rate of 55 per cent of salary scale between Tk. 8,250 and Tk. 9,700, 50 per cent from those with Tk 9,701-16000, 45 per cent from those with Tk 16,001-35,501 and 40 per cent from those with salaries above Tk 35,501.
Many senior teachers end up paying Tk. 35,000 to Tk. 40,000 as house rent, which is considered as highly expensive in Rajshahi, where the cost of living is among the lowest in the country.
Professor Dr Md Saiful Islam Faruki, Convenor , Residential Quarter Allotment Committee said, we prepared a report including this problem by forming a committee but RU authority denied the report at the time of submitting it.
