District Representative Sylhet: A syndicate meeting has started at the administrative building of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. And students have started a protest march and sit-in program outside the building. The students demand that teachers of the PME department were appointed without fulfilling the qualifications during the previous administration. This appointment must be canceled.
Students of the university’s Petroleum and Mining Engineering (PME) department started the protest in front of the building around 11:30 am on Saturday.
The students alleged that a lecturer was appointed in the PME department in June last year without fulfilling the qualifications. The then administration appointed the teacher despite not complying with the conditions of the appointment notice. They demanded that this appointment be canceled.
According to university administration sources, the syndicate meeting started at the Vice-Chancellor’s office at 11:20 am on Saturday as per the previously announced schedule.
The students protesting in front of the administrative building kept chanting slogans like ‘In July Bengal, there is no place for corruption’, ‘Qualification is not a round table, qualification is qualification’, ‘Bribery is not merit, merit is merit’, ‘Cancel this appointment, it must be done’ etc.
Abu Bakr, a postgraduate student of the PME department who participated in the protest, said that a lecturer named Tajbiul Islam was appointed in our department, who did not meet the qualifications for appointment. In the last (235th) syndicate meeting, it was decided that there were irregularities in his appointment and he was given a show cause notice. But he has not given any reply yet. Our only demand is that we do not want to see this incompetent teacher in the class. If his appointment is not cancelled, then we will boycott the class.
