Staff Correspondent

The University Grants Commission is yet to approve the appointment of 105 teachers inducted in different department of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology in Sylhet during 2005-06 and 2006-07 fiscal years.

The UGC said the appointments were given without their prior approval while the SUST has been paying their salaries from its own fund, causing acute fund crisis, sources in the university administration said.

The SUST now has a budget shortage of about Tk 3 crore, the sources said, adding that the university would fall in further budget deficit of about Tk 2.5 crore at the end of the current fiscal year for paying the salaries. According to the authorities, the 105 teachers were appointed to meet an acute teachers’ shortage.

Nine of them were appointed in economics department, 7 each in biotechnology, genetics, resource engineering, architecture, and food and technology departments, 6 in computer science and engineering, 5 each in petroleum, chemistry and mathematics, 4 each in statistics, chemical engineering and polymer science, social science, public administration and business administration, 3 each in agricultural science, political studies, English, and 2 each in Bangla and industrial production and engineering departments.

At present, a total of 383 teachers are appointed in the 23 disciplines under 7 faculties. Of them, 261 are now working at the university and 122 teachers are abroad on study leave, sources in the administration said. Regarding the appointment of the 105 teachers, vice-chancellor Professor Aminul Islam said it had been done following to the rules and regulations of the commission.

The University Grants Commission has already given verbal assurance to provide the salaries of the teachers from beginning of the next fiscal year, he added. ‘UGC would certainly take a positive step to address the issue soon,’ the VC hoped.

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