[9] The university offers Sarafat Chowdhury Merit Scholarship to students based on their academic performance.
But is it a correct decision to allocate a plot to a private organisation at cheap prices?
The plot had been allocated for construction of a secondary school, but had been reclassified as available for a private university (the Canadian University), allegedly in violation proper procedures for altering the Master Plan of the Purbachal New Town project.
[14] According to the Ministry, the High Court had approved one part of a proposed fifth amendment to the Plan (addition of a 142-storey tower) but had rejected the rest, and had instructed RAJUK to not modify the category of plots mentioned in the Plan.
[14] According to local real estate experts, the plot was worth about 1.02 billion taka (about $12,000,000 in American dollars).