The New Nation - Internet Edition

RU Correspondent

About two hundred adhoc employees of Rajshahi University (RU) on Saturday vandalised RU Vice-Chancellor's office and staged demonstration on the campus demanding regularisation of their jobs.

RU Vice-Chancellor Prof. Mamnunul Keramat was also confined at his office for two hours by class three and class four employees who pressed for regularisation of their jobs.

The employees of 544 series met with RU VC at 10.30 Am to know their fate.

Failing to receive any assurance from the VC, they demonstrated at the VC office and vandalised the VC room and later took position in front of his office and chanted slogans in support of their demands.

Later at about 12.30 PM they met with administrative high officials who gave assurance of regularisation of their jobs.

Addressing a rally, the employees blasted the authorities' dilly-dallying attitude regarding the regularisation of their jobs in the last four years. They called for regularising their jobs by calling a syndicate meeting immediately.

The University Administration in 2004 had appointed 544 employees against 255 permanent posts allegedly on political consideration on daily payment basis without issuing any recruitment notice.

The university authority had already regularised the jobs of 300 employees till February last year (2007) by publishing notice. But the fate of the rest still remained unclear, which angered the employees who have been long agitating to press home their demands.

When contacted, the RU Vice Chancellor Prof. Mamnunul Keramat told the New Nation that they were trying their level best to regularise their jobs.