HC Show Cause
Why RU recent recruitment process not illegal
RU Correspondent
A High Court (HC) bench issued a show cause notice on Rajshahi University authorities as to why the recent recruitment process of the university should not be declared illegal and the recruitments annulled.The bench, comprising Justice Syeed Dastagir Hossain and Justice Mamunur Rahman issued the notice on August 31. Earlier, a number of job seekers -- Abdus Shakur, Golam Mostafa, Motahar Hossain, Saheen Uddin and Gias Uddin -- filed a petition with the HC alleging the university authorities were recruiting people violating university rules and regulations. The rule nisi was also issued upon the RU vice-chancellor (VC), pro-VC, registrar, university grants commission (UGC) chairman and education secretary. When asked, RU VC Prof Altaf Hossain told newsmen that he came to know about the show cause notice but he is yet to receive a copy of the HC order. Meanwhile, sources in the RU campus said RU authorities are now doing the paperwork to recruit 350 class III and class IV employees. They alleged political background of the applicants is largely influencing the recruitment. Earlier, RU authorities recruited 546 class III and class IV employees violating the university rules and without publishing any newspaper advertisements. Most of these newly employed people are now reapplying in a bid to get rid of the legal hassle they have been going through. Rafiqul Islam Sader, one of the 546 employees, said it is the university authorities' responsibility to regularise their jobs.
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