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JU Correspondent

A Jahangirnagar University teacher is yet to receive his appointment letter after about two years of his joining the university as an assistant professor on ad-hoc basis.

Dr Ali Azam Talukder, who joined the Microbiology Department of the university on January 23 in 2006, told journalists at a press conference at JUJA office yesterday that he is being deprived as a certain quarter is hatching conspiracy against his appointment for unknown reasons.

He said after expiry of his six-month ad-hoc basis appointment on July 22 in 2006 he has been given extension in his ad-hoc appointment again for the third time till April 22, 2007 assuring that his job would be regularised. In spite of the expiry of the latest tenure of the extension the university authorities have neither given him further extension nor has he been paid the salary for the entire third term extended period, he alleged.

Dr Azam said that the university authorities appointed him as an invigilator in the first year admission test but have not paid him because the dean of Life Science Faculty did not sign his bill.

Replying to a question, he further alleged that he is not being regularised, as a vested group was trying to identify him as a member of the opposition teachers' group.

Vice Chancellor of the University Prof Khandaker Mostahidur Rahman told this correspondent that the authorities could not give him appointment since the Chairman of his department recommended otherwise for lack of up to the mark performance. As such we cannot appoint him as a regular teacher as per the University Act. As a result another teacher was given appointment.

It may be mentioned that he completed honours and masters from this University securing the first position in the first class and a Japanese University awarded him gold medal in PhD degree on 'Molecular Biology' in 1996.