Editorial
JU impasse
Govt should act to end it
ACADEMIC activities of the Jahangirnagar University (JU) have come to a halt with its besieged VC being pressed to step down by agitating teachers. Organised under the banner of Sadharan Shikkhak Forum they have been staging a sit-in since Wednesday morning.
It may be recalled that amid a siege enforced by striking teachers under JUTA (Jahangirnagar Teachers' Association) since June 30, the High Court, responding to a petition, ordered to open the administrative building on July 24. But then the new phase of the agitation led by Sadharan ShikkhaK Forum started.
So, the impasse in JU is continuous. The previous VC had also to go last year in the face of continued strike by teachers, while this is for the third time that the incumbent JU VC, the first elected one, is being asked by his colleagues to leave office.
Teachers have been demonstrating with their 12-point complaints that include irregularities in students' admission and teachers' appointment, death of a student, assault on a teacher by a BCL leader, terrorist attack in the campus by hooligans, alleged undesirable statements by the VC to the media and so on.
Granted the agitating teachers may have their point, but then why should the general students' academic life suffer indefinitely? Teachers should rather settle the issue amicably among themselves without in anyway affecting the university's educational activities.
The government, especially, the president and chancellor should put their foot down in the matter to end the stalemate and restore normal academic environment on the JUcampus.
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