Students wait for teachers\u2019 call to return to classrooms<\/strong>
\nThe government on Sunday removed the pro-vice-chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in the face of protests the teachers and students have held since April with breaks.
\nThe education minister in a circular said that Habibur Rahman had been removed as pro-vice-chancellor in keeping with what the education minister told the students at meetings earlier to resolve the crisis in the university.
\nThe teachers and students have since April rallied for the removal of the vice-chancellor and the pro-vice-chancellor on grounds of their being involved in irregularities in the university administration.
\nThe circular also said that Habibur would return to his previous position of teaching in the civil engineering department in the university. The circular, however, did not give any reasons for his removal.
\nHabibur told New Age that he was yet to receive the circular. \u2018I will get the copy tomorrow [Monday] and then think of it.\u2019
\nThe education minister, Nurul Islam Nahid, at a meeting with an 11-member delegation of the teachers on September 3 assured them of removing the pro-vice-chancellor and withdrawal of the cases filed against BUET teachers and students on charge of entering the vice-chancellor\u2019s office and vandalism there.
\nNahid had said that the steps would be taken after some discussions on the issue of the removal of the vice-chancellor.
\nSM Lutful Kabir, a teacher of the Institute of Information and Communcations Technology under the university, who resigned as the university registrar on Saturday night took back his resignation letter on Sunday evening.
\nDemanding the removal of the vice-chancellor, SM Nazrul Islam, he said, \u2018I tendered my resignation feeling sorry to work under the incumbent vice-chancellor for the apparent involvement of him and his deputy in irregularities and corruption.\u2019
\n\u2018But state minister for science and technology Yeafesh Osman and the students have requested me not to leave BUET,\u2019 the teacher said.
\n\u2018I will go on leave for three months. If the vice-chancellor is not removed by this time, I will be forced to reconsider my decision,\u2019 he added.
\nThe students were, meanwhile, waiting for the instruction from their teachers whether they would get back to classrooms.
\n\u2018We are ready to return to classrooms as soon as our teachers will ask us to do so,\u2019 said Sudipta Saha, one of the organisers of the student movement, on Sunday.
\nReposing faith in the minister\u2019s words, he said, \u2018Everything now depends on the teachers whether they would resume academic activities soon.\u2019
\nDuring another meeting with the students on September 5, the minister gave an assurance that no action in any form would be taken
\nagainst the students who had rallied for the removal of the two top university administrative officials.
\nThe minister gave the assurance after the students had demanded security as they were feeling insecure with Nazrul Islam in office as he might initiate academic and disciplinary action against students rallying against him.
\nBUET teachers said that they would get back to classrooms after the proposals the minister made at the September 3 meeting were effected.
\nThe BUET Teachers\u2019 Association general secretary, Ashraful Islam, told New Age that they would return to classrooms after the proposals were implemented.
\nAsked about resuming academic activities, Ashraful said that it might take two to three days to complete the process. He hoped that the two cases filed against teachers and students would be withdrawn by this time.
\nThe crisis in the university began on April 7 when the teachers\u2019 association began a movement, including abstention from work and sit-ins, and levelled 16 allegations against the two top university officials. Students and other university officials joined them in mid-July.
\nThe protesters began rallying on July 11 for the removal of the vice-chancellor and the pro-vice-chancellor after the authorities on the night of July 10 closed the university.
\nThe same day all the five deans and the 17 department heads and directors of three institutes under the university resigned as the vice-chancellor and the pro-vice-chancellor refused to quit.
\nThe teachers rallied against the administration between April 8 and May 5.<\/p>\n

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