PM's visit to DU
We thank our premier for her smooth confession and revealing the truth. But ironically, she escaped some other very crucial issues which are also involved in creating the present phase. At first she totally ignored the sinister student politics which very often puts a barrier to achieving degrees on time. Although it has a golden past thanks to its involvement in many successful revolutions including our glorious liberation war. Now our student leaders are busy fulfilling their own selfish desires. Frequently they engage themselves in clashes with their rival groups over political issues which result in strikes that halt the regular curriculum activities. The tug of war takes a heavy toll on general students as they get embroiled in traumatic session jams. But our premier dexterously evaded this issue though once she had promised to pull out this obnoxious knot from all educational institutions.
She also evaded another important issue. In the heydays of DU all the teachers were appointed on the basis of their merit and calibre. At that time, UGC directly recruited the most eligible candidate in a systematic process so that there was no political interference. But now teachers are designated based on their political loyalty. For that reason DU, the highest learning seat of our country, has been losing its previous glory.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. She ignored the university ordinance of 1973 which gave the teachers legal right to exercise free and fair politics. It is not the politics that is to blame, but it's the party lineage of the teachers she seems to put a cover on. Is it because she needs some like-minded intelligentsia who would not question her actions?
The existing ambience of DU will not change as long as these problems are not resolved.