CUET VC halts pay for 1,087 staffers amid protest

The letter also warned of disciplinary action against officials who disobeyed the instruction.

According to university sources, CUET has 367 teachers, 208 officers and 512 employees. They have joined a work stoppage in solidarity with students demanding cancellation of the new vice-chancellor’s appointment and reinstatement of former VC Prof Dr Abu Sadat Muhammad Sayem.


He claimed that salaries and bonuses had never been withheld during previous crises at the university, alleging that the current situation was created to pressure teachers, officers and employees into ending their protest.

Joyanta Bhowmik, manager of Sonali Bank’s CUET branch, said the bank had received the salary sheets signed by the controller and deputy controller of accounts, as it does every month.

“But the vice-chancellor has instructed us to suspend the payments. We have informed our higher authorities, who have asked us to seek a legal opinion. Further action will be taken after receiving the opinion,” he said.


On September 21, Prof Dr Sheikh Shariful Alam of Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET) was appointed CUET vice-chancellor, replacing Prof Dr Abu Sadat Muhammad Sayem.

Students subsequently launched protests demanding that the new appointment be cancelled and the former vice-chancellor reinstated. Teachers, officers and employees later joined the work stoppage in solidarity with the students.

The university has now been under a 15-day shutdown, with classes, examinations and all major academic and administrative activities effectively suspended.