The Rajshahi University Syndicate on Saturday formed a committee, asking it to investigate the present crisis around three teachers of its theatre and music department.
At the same meeting the majority of the syndicate members spoke in favour of retaining the three temporarily appointed teachers, Solok Hossain, Monoz Kumar Pramanik and Abdus Salam, who were lately asked by the university authorities to stop their work.
The four-member committee formed by the Syndicate would be headed by Khalekuzzam, director of the RU Institute of Biological Sciences.
Its other members are Mohammad Abdul Khaleq, chairmen of botany department, Golam Kabir, teacher of the same department, Saiyed Sadiqul Alam, a RU Syndicate member.
The committee was asked to submit its report by this September 30.
On July 25 theatre and music department academic committee verbally told the three teachers that their services were no more required.
Sources in the department said that their jobs were not made permanent because of their involvement in the movement that went on between March and May this year for the removal of the then department chair Moloy Kumar Bhoumick from the post.
Meanwhile, thirteen other teachers of the department, who had also taken part in that movement, said they should have been punished too if those three had to suffer any punishment for participating in the movement.
'Our movement against Moloy Kumar Bhoumick was peaceful and to do so is our democratic right,' a teacher of the department said, preferring anonymity.
The accused teachers were appointed on ad hoc basis on July 25, 2010 and according to the custom of the university, a temporarily-appointed teacher usually gets permanent appointment after six months.
Sadequl Arefin Matin, general secretary of RU Teachers' Association, said they had submitted a memorandum to the vice-chancellor, Abdus Sobhan, demanding permanent appointment of the three teachers.
The VC told New Age that the authorities would take final decision after submission of the report by the probe committee.
Source : New Age
