An acute crisis of workers and a lack of residential and transport facilities has led to mismanagement of the academic activities of Comilla Government College.
The inadequacy of the current infrastructure and other logistic issues further add to the problem.
Established as an intermediate college in 1968, the institute currently caters to 7,000 students.
The college was nationalised in 1985 and over the years began offering degree (Pass course) and honours courses in accounting, management, English and political science.
However, the existing teaching staff numbers are highly inadequate to cater to the students enrolled at HSC, honours and degree level.
As a result, providing lessons to the students in the above-mentioned subjects have become difficult, students alleged. Despite the college offering the honours courses for a long time, no post for a vice-principal at the college has thus far been created.
There is no one in the post of a professor at the college, despite the college committee’s recommendation that there should be four professors.
Only two associate professor posts have been filled out of seven sanctioned posts. One of the 12 posts for assistant professors and 14 lecturer posts are vacant.
One lone lecturer is taking all the English classes, which is a compulsory subject in the curriculums at all levels.
The college has two three-storey buildings, one two-storey building and two tin-roofed structures where all the academic and administrative activities take place.
There is an insufficient number of classrooms in the academic buildings to accommodate the existing numbers of students.
Though Information and Communication Technology has been introduced as a compulsory subject in the HSC as of the current academic year, no teacher has been recruited to teach the subject.
Honours courses are predominantly run using guest lecturers. Two of three office assistant posts, and five of 10 Grade IV posts are lying vacant.
Talking to the UNB, some HSC students said they often could not prepare for their lessons in time due to scarcity of books and space in the library.
They alleged that they had to reside in costly rented houses or mess halls outside the campus and use public transport to travel to the college as the institution did not provide any residential or transport facilities.
The teachers and employees are not being provided any campus quarters either. The house allotted to the principal was declared abandoned several years back.
When contacted, principal of the college Prof Ziauddin Ahmed said they had already written to the higher authorities regarding the establishment of an examination hall-cum-academic building, the creation of new posts in various departments, the reconstruction of the roof of the old administrative building, the set up of a central library, and various other problems.
He hoped that the authorities would promptly take measures to address the issues.
