Metropolitan College: 16 teachers, employees working with fake certificates

Khulna Bureau :

The teachers and employees of the college have been involved in various misdeeds, including embezzling government money by using fake certificates and illegally obtaining MPO registration by forgery, withdrawing government salary and allowances for 21 years, and traveling abroad without leave by hiding information from the college authorities.
And in this way, they have been using government salary and allowances for years. 16 such employees have been found in the ‘Metropolitan College’ in the metropolis of Khulna. Among them are teachers, demonstrators and lab assistants as well as officials. It has been alleged that these people have done this work by hiding information from the college authorities.
Metropolitan College was established in 2002 in Sabujbagh of Sonadanga Police Station, Khulna. It was registered with MPO in 2004.
A total of 50 teachers and employees are registered with MPO in the college. Of these, 39 are in the general branch and 11 in the BM branch. However, the degree branch has not yet been included in the MPO.
Among the 16 accused appointed to the college are Arabic literature lecturer Md. Ziyad Ali. Senior lecturer of the English department AHM Mahbubur Rahman Shamim.
Thakur Das Mandal is working as a physics instructor despite not having a science certificate.
Although the subject of business entrepreneurship and practical management is not approved by the college, M.D. Saiduzzaman has become a senior lecturer in this subject. Although the subject of economics and commercial geography has been suspended in the college, lecturer Shariful Alam remains in office, Monira Zaman, who has a master’s degree in political science, became a lecturer in the computer department without the appointment rules. Computer instructor Sheikh Moin Uddin could not provide the required training certificate as per the conditions during the appointment. Secretarial science lab assistant Sharifuzzaman Mollah was appointed without a certificate of a six-month diploma course. Apart from this, the educational qualification certificates given for the jobs and MPO registration of office assistants Sheikh Alamgir Hossain, Kazi Khairul Islam and Polly Akhter are also not correct.
SM Mominul Islam, one of the founders and former donor members of the college, wrote to various departments including the Ministry of Education, Department of Secondary and Higher Education, Department of Technical Education, and Accounts and Audit to take action against these teachers and employees involved in fake fraud. In January this year, the fake fraud certificates were also submitted along with these allegations.
Several people involved in the management of the college said on condition of anonymity that the accused have cleverly consumed more than 13 crore taka for almost 21 years of service. This money should be returned morally. At the same time, legal action should be taken against them.
Who told Taifuzzaman, the acting principal of the college, that the authorities appointed them after looking at the certificates. If they were corrupt, they would not have been appointed. If various audits were coming, they would not have been able to survive.
Dibakar Bawali, principal and one of the founders of the college, said, “In 2023, while verifying the certificates and appointments of teachers and employees on the instructions of the Department of Education, irregularities were found against 16 people. I am currently undergoing treatment outside the country due to various physical complications after being injured in an accident. I hope the ministry and the Department of Education will take action in this regard.”