The Ministry of Education has come under fire after appointing two teachers -- both dead for over a year -- as principals of government colleges. Among those listed were two teachers who had passed away over a year ago.Prof Mohammad Jamal Uddin, a physics teacher at Kurigram Government College, was appointed principal of Mir Ismail Hossain College in Kurigram. Prof Md Abdul Muttalib, who taught history at Carmichael College in Rangpur, was named principal of Pirgacha College in the same district.Both teachers had died more than a year before the appointments.Prof Md Ataul Haque Khan Chowdhury, acting principal of Kurigram Government College, confirmed that Prof Jamal Uddin died on Apr 12, 2023. "Prof Jamal Uddin was also the father of Fairuz Sadaf Abontika, a law student at Jagannath University who took her own life in March 2023. He had posted about her death on Facebook shortly before his own.His widow, Tahmina Begum, was stunned to learn of the posthumous appointment.
