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Pac to recover illegally drawn salaries of public university teachers

Staff Correspondent
The Public Accounts Committee (Pac) of the JatiyaSangsad yesterday decided to initiate stem actions against the public university teachers who have illegally drawn salaries and other allowances while overstaying abroad.
In a bid to recover the public money, the committee asked the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) to prepare a
list of the teachers who stayed abroad after the expiry of their leave period and drew salary and other allowances from the public exchequer.
It also decided to file FIR (first information report) with the police station and publish their photographs in newspapers if they fail to return money.
Pac members blasted the teachers concerned as well as the authorities that allowed them to go abroad
frequently and overstay there on public money.
They asked the public university authorities to initiate measures to stopthetrendtermingit braindrain from the country.
" It is very much unforttinate that the teachers who go abroad on public money do not return in due time, but draw their salaries regularly," committee Chairman Harun Al Rashid told reporters.
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Earlier, the committee decided to take stern actions against five teachers of Jahangirnagar University who were overstaying abroad, but drew over Tk 17 lakh illegally as their salaries, the CAG office said.
Following directives of the Janhangirnagar University authorities, two of the five teachers have already returned Tk 6 lakh and begged for exemption of interest but the committee refused it
Authorities of Janhangirnagar, Chittagong and National universities, however, assured the committee that they would not allow such irregularities in future.
The committee also discussed irregularities involving over Tk 90 lakh in Chittagong education board as mentioned in the audit report that found the authorities collected the money against issuance of marksheets but distributed it among theofficials.
Education ministry officials informed the committee thatTk 17 lakh was recovered and process is underway to recover the rest of the money.