The commission investigating the stalemate at Jahangirnagar University over the demand for the resignation of vice-chancellor Anwar Hossain submitted its report to the education secretary on Tuesday. The two-member inquiry commission recommended that the vice-chancellor maintain good relationship with deans and other teachers for the sake of congenial academic atmosphere at the university, said a source in the education ministry.
The government on September 2 formed the commission comprising University Grants Commission member Muhibur Rahman and the education ministry’s joint secretary Mohammad Ahsanul Jabbar, asking it to submit the report within 15 working days.
The deadline expired on September 23 and the commission got seven more working days for submission of the report.
Ahsanul Jabbar told New Age that they submitted the report to the education secretary on Tuesday afternoon.
An education ministry official said that the commission put forward four recommendations and found controversies over some syndicate decisions and Anwar Hossain made some ‘whimsical’ comments about some matters.
Both Muhibur Rahman and Ahsanul Jabbar declined to make comment on the recommendations.
A section of teachers under the banner of General Teachers’ Forum on August 25 suspended their protest programmes after the education minister, Nurul Islam Nahid, assured a group of teachers of setting up an inquiry commission.
They had also confined Anwar in his office since August 21 demanding his resignation.
-With New Age input
