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Teacher training to take multimedia classes. Excluding government and weekly holidays, the duration of the training was only 7 days. One thousand 121 training batches. There were 30 students in each lot. The duration of each training was six days and 12 days. 20 locations across the country. But even in this period, one person was present at all those trainings! By showing such attendance, he has received 16 lakh 61,500 rupees as an honor! This person with ‘robotic skills’ is Professor Dr. Maryland. Eat patiently. He is the director of the project of the Ministry of Education entitled ‘Introduction to education through ICT at secondary and higher levels (Phase II)’. Although their different signatures have been found in different training courses.
A three-member committee of the Department of Inspection and Audit (DIA) under the Ministry of Education has found evidence of widespread irregularities in the project. The investigation report was presented to the ministry in the last week of last month.
Teachers from 100 upazilas from 36 districts participated in the training, which took place from March 6 to June 30 last year in 20 campuses across the country.
Not only the training fees, around two million rupees have been shown on behalf of the government organization for paying the rent for the venue in violation of the rules. That money was not deposited in the bank according to the rules. The project manager did not pay attention to the rules and regulations in the case of discounts. Although he has the power to release up to 3 million rupees, he does not accept it. There is no problem in buying tenders for training. Billions of rupees of training materials from a specific organization are being purchased. Even all the purchase documents displayed for the training did not reach the training field.
Said the Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Education (Development). Belayet Hossain Talukder told Kaler Kantha about this: “We have just received the research report on the ICT project. Now the file is running according to the rules.
The Tk 1,353 million ICT project is known to have started in July 2017. It was supposed to end in June 2020. However, the project duration has been extended by one year. But as of the last financial year, the project’s progress was only 6 percent. The main work has not started yet. The project to create multimedia classrooms had as its original objective the training of teachers
It’s about management. But without doing that, money is spent in the name of training. Interested persons said that this training is useless as it has no practical application.
According to sources, the project aims to install multimedia classrooms in 3,340 schools, as well as in some 5,000 private schools without electricity connection. If an organization has created a multimedia classroom on its own initiative, another multimedia classroom must be created to fund the project. Each multimedia classroom will have a multimedia projector, laptop, sound box, modem, etc. Educational materials and teacher training.
But another institution under the Ministry of Education, the Department of Inspection and Audit (DIA), launched an investigation in February and March this year into allegations of irregularities in the project. According to the research report, the training was conducted at the same time in 14 TTC (teacher training schools), five HSTTI (upper secondary teacher training institutes) and one BMTTI (Bangladesh Madrasa Teachers Training Institute) of the country. He has received a fee of Rs 61,500. In various training courses, he has been honored as a main guest and a special guest. But there is no record of Professor Sabur Khan running any shows anywhere. Therefore, the fees you have taken ‘out of availability’ are refundable to the government treasury. The report establishes that, as a general rule, “no authority will grant expenses in a way that benefits directly or indirectly.”
The investigative report further said that not only the project director, but also the heads of 20 locations in the country have illegally taken advantage of financial advantages to conduct training courses. For example, the acting director of Pabna TTC. Sujauddaula has been the main coordinator of each of the 30 courses. You have been honored to perform all three types of responsibilities (Main Guest or Special Guest, Lead Coordinator, and Master Trainer) in training courses.
The report further said that Rs 2,000 per day has been allocated as a place charge for the training course in the project’s DPP (Development Project Proposal). As a place charge, an 8 lakh 18 lakh crore has been delivered to the government institution. But since the place is in a government institution, they do not deserve this money. However, the government’s teacher training institutes have directly spent the money received as a headquarters fee without depositing it in a bank.
Large irregularities have also been detected in the purchase of various materials, including training manuals and certificates. According to the investigation report, the spending on certificates and manuals was supposed to be shown separately according to the rules, but this was not done. A review of coupons received from various locations shows that Rs 9,000 was paid for the manual for each 30-person training course, Rs 9,600 for training bags, Rs 1,600 for training materials and the cost of transportation for each batch of materials. training was paid to Anisha Enterprise in Mohammadpur. There is no record of how Anisha was hired to provide training materials for such a large amount of money. In other words, two crore 25 lakh two thousand rupees have been spent without any offer. There is no stock entry of purchased goods. In some cases, the invoice has been paid even though the site has not received the training materials.
It is known that for the implementation of development projects issued by the Ministry of Finance, a financial capacity of Taka 3 million has been allocated for training, seminars, workshops and research expenses of class “A” project managers. But in the class ‘A’ ICT project, apart from two assignments in the training sector, it has allocated more than 3 million taka each. According to the rules, the upper house has not been informed about this.
According to sources, the two deputy directors of the ICT project have played an important role in irregularities and corruption in training activities. They were the hartakars of all financial expenses. They had a role in all fields including communication, fees, purchase of goods in each training center.
It was learned that to commit more irregularities and corruption in the ICT project, they took the initiative to acquire educational materials directly from government institutions without DPM (Direct Contracting Method), that is, open bidding. There is an opportunity for arbitrariness and corruption in employing some organizations of choice. Several plans have already been drawn up to this end and are being vigorously implemented.
Project Director Prof. Maryland. Sabur Khan told Kaler Kantha: “The work of purchasing multimedia materials for the classroom has not started yet. However, the duration of the project has been extended by one year. We have submitted a proposal to the Ministry of Education for the purchase of multimedia materials. The work continues according to the instructions of the ministry. Asked about irregularities and corruption in the project and training of all the lots and rental of premises to government agencies, he said: “It would not be legal to speak about the matter under investigation.”
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