The academic session of the university has fallen behind the schedule due to the ongoing teachers' movement, student agitation and alleged mis-management of the authorities. As a result, classes and examinations have frequently been deferred since October 15.

The unscheduled extension of the academic session will reportedly cost an extra Tk 18 crore for the students and at least Tk 37 crore for the government.

On an average, each of the seven thousand students of the university is paying Tk 1,500 per month as tuition fee, dormitory charges and other expenses, according to Robin Ahsan, a student of English Department.

Officials say that the government is also counting financial loss since the University Grants Commission sanctioned funds of Tk 24 crore 95 lakh and Tk 25 crore 60 lakh simultaneously for the current and previous academic years. But there has hardly been any academic or relevant activities in the in this period.

The students are feeling increasingly frustrated with the situation. "Our future is totally uncertain. We had passed our HSC in 1997 and still haven't appeared in the Masters final examination," said Shakila Samad of Anthropology department.

Within the last 13 months, session jam in the university increased from seven months to almost eighteen months.

The crisis is believed to have been caused mostly by teachers who are active in politics. Conflict between faculty members supporting the ruling party and the opposition is creating the unease.

The government's removal of former Vice Chancellor(VC) of the university Professor Abdul Bayes has not gone down well with a vast section of the teachers who are reluctant to express solidarity with the newly appointed VC.

Besides, teachers have also become divided on the allegation of some leaders and activists of the ruling BNP-backed Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal continuing to eat without paying the canteen bill of Salam Barkat Hall.

When the provost of the hall tried to take action against them, those students confined the provost, house tutor and others.

"We want proper justice for misbehavior of students," said Prof. Shah Sufi

Mohammed Mustafizur Rahman of Archeology Department.

Student's also complain that some teachers do not want to continue classes since they can earn more money by doing consultation work outside the university.

"More than five teachers are on study leave and have gone abroad. Some of them took leave and are doing contract jobs while still drawing salary from the university," claimed a student of Anthropology department.