[ALOCHONA] Fwd: [Dahuk]: DU Pro-VC accused of patronizing irregular appointments

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From: Shimul Chaudhury <honestdebater@yahoo.ca>
Date: Aug 30, 2010 6:46 AM
Subject: [Dahuk]: DU Pro-VC accused of patronizing irregular appointments
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The New Nation, Dhaka, August 30, 2010 http://www.ittefaq.com/issues/2010/08/30/news0999.htm DU Pro-VC accused of patronizing irregular appointments DU Correspondent Dhaka University (DU) Pro-Vice Chancellor Prof Harun-or-Rashid himself was explicitly patronising an unprecedented irregularity in recruiting teachers in the university. The malpractice was done in the meeting of the Selection Committee for recruiting lecturers in the Department of Applied Chemistry and Chemical Technology under the faculty of Engineering and Technology yesterday. Sources said applications were called for six vacant posts (three permanent and three temporary) of lecturer in the Department of Applied Chemistry and Chemical Technology recently. According to the process, the Selection Committee, headed by the Pro-VC Harun-or-Rashid with four other members - Dean of the concerned faculty Prof Shahida Rafiq, chairperson of the department Syed M Shamsuddin, and two experts Prof Mahbubar Rahman and Prof Ahmed Ismail Mostafa of the same department - sat yesterday for selecting the more qualified candidates for the posts. The permanent three posts were filled up by the candidates who were in the top three positions considering their results in honours' and masters' level examinations and their publications at home and abroad. But the irregularity was done in the selection of three temporary posts where candidates who have 1st class 1st and 2nd positions in honours and masters' examinations have been rejected and those who have secured 6th or 7th positions in the same examinations have been selected denying the opposition of two members of the Selection Committee. The selected three candidates are Mithun Sarkar, Sumaiya Farhana and Taslima Ferdaus. Mithun's merit positions in honours and masters examinations were 3rd and 2nd respectively while Sumaiya's positions were 7th and 1st and Taslima's positions were 4th and 6th in honours and masters examinations respectively. On the other hand, Kazi Tanimul Haque Shuvra, Mohammad Shahruzzaman and Nashid Sharif have been rejected while their merit positions in the honours and masters examinations were 2nd & 2nd, 1st & 2nd and 2nd & 2nd respectively. Of them, Mohammad Shahruzzaman is the highest marks scorer in honours examination among the candidates applied for. He achieved 2208 marks in the examination. Nashid's total marks in honours exams were 2203 and Tanimul's were 2188. But the marks of the three selected candidates Mithun, Sumaiya and Taslima were 2064, 2087 and 2088 respectively. The rejected candidates were also clearly ahead by the number of publications at home and abroad than the selected candidates. Sources said the biased selection was made by the direct interference of the Pro-VC Prof Harun-or-Rashid though the two members of the committee, dean of the faculty Prof Shahida Rafiq and one of the two expert teachers Prof Mahbubar Rahman opposed it. At one stage, Prof Shahida Rafiq walked out from the meeting protesting the partial role of Pro-VC in the selection. She told reporters at a press conference at her office "The Pro-VC showed blind partiality to the less qualified candidates just considering their political views and he made injustice to the candidates who have much more qualifications than the selected," Prof Shahida Rafiq termed the biased selection as unprecedented in the history of Dhaka University. She further said that two of selected candidates could not answer the simple questions in the viva voce. Their only qualification is their political identity, she added. "Such kind of political fanaticism in higher educational institutions are destroying the future of the nation," she opined.

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