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Railway Job Scandal

Ministry finds Mridha among 5 responsible

M Abul Kalam Azad
Another probe body has suggested taking action against five officials of the railway's east zone, including suspended general manager Yusuf Ali Mridha, for their involvement in Widespread irregularities in recruitment.
The four others are Additional Chief Mechanical Engineer Hafizur Rahman, Senior Welfare Officer Golam Kibria, Chief Commandant Aminur Rashid and Assistant Commercial Officer Abu Syed Ahmed.
The railway ministry formed the three-member probe body to evaluate the report submitted by the first probe body formed to look into the irregularities in recruitment in the railway sector.
The second probe body headed by railway's Additional Director General (ADG) Mohammad Shahjahan submitted a report to railway Secretary Fazle Kabir on Thursday.
Departmental proceedings will begin against the five as per the Government Servants (discipline and appeal) Rules, 1985 once the investigation report is accepted by the railway ministry, sources in the ministry said.
It was found that the accused officials changed the exam sheets of many disqualified job-seekers to appoint them.
In many cases, candidates, who failed to pass the written exam, were recruited while some candidates, who were supposed to be rejected in the primary selection, were appointed to the job, a source close to the probe body said.
"All this happened in exchange for money from the job-seekers," he said, adding that the probe committee had enough evidence to prove anomalies in the recruitment process.
The first probe body headed by Joint Director General Md Shamsuzzaman in its report, submitted to the railway director general on May 22, accused two other railway officials along with the five, including Mridha, of manipulating the recruitment process.
In the fresh report, the names of Divisional Engineer (Dhaka) Arman Hossain and Divisional Engineer (Chittagong) Abidur Rahman were dropped. Of the two, Arman is the son-in-law of Mridha.
ADG Shahjahan along with two other members worked throughout last week on the report and other documents submitted by the Shamsuzzaman-led committee and then submitted its report on Thursday.
Both the probe bodies found various anomalies in the recruitment of 1,128 employees in the east zone.
“Many of them were recruited using back dates," said a railway official, adding that Mridha had engaged only a few officials in the recruitment process in a bid to manipulate the process.
The issue of recruitment anomalies came to light
after the driver of now-fired assistant personal secretary Omar Faruq Talukder of former railway minister Suranjit Sengupta, drove Faruq's microbus into the BGB Pilkhana headquarters on April 9 and shouted that there was illegal money in the vehicle. BGB men found Tk 70 lakh in the microbus in which Faruq was travelling with Mridha and divisional Security Commandant Enamul Huq.
The BGB personnel detained the four but released them the next day after verifying their identities.
However, many in the railway claimed that the money stashed in the vehicle had come from crores reportedly collected from jobseekers.
Faruq was sacked, and Mridha and Enamul were suspended following the incident.
The scandal drew huge flak across the country, which led to resignation of Suranjit as railway minister.
A departmental probe headed by the railway DG found no link of Suranjit with the cash haul. The AntiCorruption Commission recently said it could not certify Suranjit, now a minister without portfolio, as innocent until it completed its investigation.