Loopholes in an Institution

“What is your aim in life?”-the oft-repeated question that a pupil has to face till he/she passes the higher secondary education. Generally, nobody even thinks of replying to the question that he/she will ‘make money’ somehow or other. “I want to be a doctor or an engineer or somebody with fame”-is a universally recognized answer. But now-a-days it has become customary to reply “I want to be an owner of an institution as it is lucrative”. People may find it strange or eccentric but finally they have to agree to it.

Tania, a student of a private university, once in her write-up, has expressed her utter disgust at the treatment of doctors and medical system of Bangladesh. Her family had to spend a lot of money on the diagnosis of one of her family members. Tania’s experience is not unique. It does not matter whether one dwells in a city or village. The doctors or the medical institutions are imposing their ‘prescriptions’ over the mass people who are helpless in the hands of the doctors and medical institutions.

However, Tania might think herself to be helpless as she did not aim to be an ‘owner’ of an institution. If she had a medical institution or a diagnostic center she could easily consider the expenditure as not exorbitant.

In addition, Gura Mia, another student of the university, once found that one of his teachers talking against the institution. The authority forced the teacher to do something what he did not like. It is the assumption of Gura Mia about the teacher.

Again, Gura Mia, in his educational institution, is n not satisfied. He finds it lacks in many things. He, along with other students, had to face problems in using wash rooms. There were not adequate number of wash room in the campus. The scarcity of drinking water was another notable problem. One of the teachers of Gura Mia became ill because of the paucity of drinking water. He could not drink water as it was not available. “Why don’t you go to Dean Sir and ask for a glass of water?” said another teacher of Gura Mia. Indeed, Gura Mia or his classmates did not go as they did not dare to go. It is also important that the problem did not occur to them.

Presently, Gura Mia is attending classes in new campus-“the largest in the area”, as the advertisement shows. There are sufficient number of wash rooms in this new campus, albeit, supply of drinking water is not always available. Therefore, Gura Mia feels good but he sees a blank sheet now-a-days. The blank sheet appears when he is alone or tries to think something differently. Afterwards, he finds out that the blank sheet is a poster. There are a few lines written on the poster. The poster is pasted on the wall of a washroom. Gura Mia finds it interesting when he reads it. “Bring ash and mud to wash your hands .Save ‘development fee’ for future. The future generation will wash their hands by international hand wash and international soap. N.B. The last date of paying development fee is on the 5th instant. You must pay tk. 500 if you submit later than the date.-Your institution.”

Now Gura Mia understands that he has to pay the development fee duly in order for the Dean Sir to be able to sanction the pure drinking water. Otherwise, Gura Mia as well as other students has to run from pillar to post. So, who is controlling the institution? Maybe, people those who aimed at owning an institution are the owner of this institution.

To sum it up, an institution, whether it is a hospital or a university can bring you huge amount of money. And it increases the interest for money in a higher degree. Once Vice Chancellor of Gura Mia’s university shared a story to Gura Mia and other students. The story is about a member of Board of trustee of the university. The member is found very interested in attending meetings. His alacrity of grabbing money is very obvious. The money is allocated for those who (member of Board of Trustee) attend meetings. The money the member gets in a meeting is very few in amount comparing to the person’s property. Let’s hope for a ‘moneyed touch’. We will touch things. Things will metamorphose themselves into money. Gee!