AICC secretary Shakiluzzaman is also a sociology teacher in Magadh University, but he has not taken a single class.
PATNA: All India Congress Committee (AICC) secretary Shakiluzzaman may have never imagined that the Bihar governor, appointed by his own party, would stop the salary he had been drawing as a teacher of Magadh University for many years now.
It is another matter that the salary was being paid to him regularly despite the fact that he had not taken a single class in the college where he was posted as a teacher of sociology. Shakiluzzaman, a former minister of state, was appointed secretary in the AICC two years ago. Since then, he has been in New Delhi and has also been allotted an office chamber in the AICC headquarters where he has to mark his attendance every day unless he has been assigned some other task by the party.
Professor Shakiluzzamman would have continued getting his salary from the university as usual had the OSD to Chancellor Krishna Kumar not made a surprise inspection of Shri Guru Govind Singh College in Patna. On being informed about the prolonged absence of the sociology teacher, the OSD sought to know from the principal, Pritipal Kaur, whether she had served a show cause notice to the absentee teacher and informed the university administration about it. The reply was in the negative. But Kaur immediately served the show cause. Although Shakiluzzaman did not bother to reply to the show cause notice, he sent a leave application seeking five days of casual leave. The college principal stopped his salary since November 2006 for he had not come to the college even for a day.
Shakiluzzaman is not alone. There are many such politicians cum teachers who had been drawing a salary without bothering to take classes or even visit the college regularly. But things have started changing since
Chancellor R S Gavai has conveyed the message that he is here to stem the rot in the field of higher education.
The wife of a minister in the Nitish Kumar government had also started attending classes in a college at Ara after she was warned by the college administration at the behest of the Chancellor’s office. Earlier, she would not go for months and her clout as a minister’s wife ensured she received a regular salary.
After taking over as the Governor of Bihar, Senior Maratha politician R S Gavai had casually said that the higher education system in this state was in a bad shape. Gavai had made this comment in the capacity of Chancellor of all Bihar universities. When the Chancellor’s OSD (education) Krishna Kumar went to visit a constituent college of Magadh university in Punpun, on the outskirts of Patna recently, he could not believe his eyes. He saw a buffalo tied with a long rope in the principal’s office chamber. Subsequently Kumar decided to personally visit as many colleges and university offices as he could.
Now the Chancellor has appointed new Vice-Chancellors in all the seven universities of Bihar.
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