DURING their academic life, teenagers are introduced to perhaps their first form of corruption through question paper leaks. This is a failure of the state machinery to stop it at its source thus allowing creating dishonest people from the beginning of their career. It is the responsibility of the state to save its education system and the government must act quickly to root out the crime.
The ACC, based on a year-long investigation by a two-member team pointed fingers in a report last week at officers in the Education Board, BG Press and other government officials for link to incidents of question paper leaks and other irregularities like transfer and promotion of teachers. The ACC made a 39-point recommendation. Giving instances of dishonesty in the Education Ministry, it said the Ministry does not settle matters as per policy but rather unnecessarily sends those matters to higher authorities causing delays, and that these delays cause corruption and provide rooms for crimes like question leaking to become a full pledged business.
Initiatives need to be taken to dispel different irregularities in Education Ministry that includes procurement, unnecessary visits abroad and expenditure in the name of training, the ACC suggested. Regarding private universities, the commission said that they will meet the demand for higher education but there are allegations of corruption against them.
The government officers and staffs are involved in every stage of the question paper, from preparation to distribution. Leaking of the papers by government employees is a criminal misconduct, but failure of the government to nab those people and punish them has made the business growing unabated. The ACC says since it is difficult to find documentary evidence of such crimes to produce offenders on trial, preventive methods should be put in place.
ACC recommended employing honest and meritorious teachers in the preparation of questions, reducing the number of exam centers. Question papers should be kept in a lockbox with a double lock and opened only in the presence of the Eeputy Commissioner, read the letter. It should not be too difficult to find out those corrupt and dishonest officials and teachers who think of the education process as a way of minting money. If due process is followed and exemplary punishment meted out to those who traffic with the education of our nation, it would be no problem at all to solve the question paper leaks.
Why doesn’t the Ministry find out its own black sheep and take stern action against them is the big question. Playing with the education of a nation should be punishable since it is not only destroying the education system but also making people to become dishonest from the beginning. It must stop and none but the government is responsible to stop it.
The ACC, based on a year-long investigation by a two-member team pointed fingers in a report last week at officers in the Education Board, BG Press and other government officials for link to incidents of question paper leaks and other irregularities like transfer and promotion of teachers. The ACC made a 39-point recommendation. Giving instances of dishonesty in the Education Ministry, it said the Ministry does not settle matters as per policy but rather unnecessarily sends those matters to higher authorities causing delays, and that these delays cause corruption and provide rooms for crimes like question leaking to become a full pledged business.
Initiatives need to be taken to dispel different irregularities in Education Ministry that includes procurement, unnecessary visits abroad and expenditure in the name of training, the ACC suggested. Regarding private universities, the commission said that they will meet the demand for higher education but there are allegations of corruption against them.
The government officers and staffs are involved in every stage of the question paper, from preparation to distribution. Leaking of the papers by government employees is a criminal misconduct, but failure of the government to nab those people and punish them has made the business growing unabated. The ACC says since it is difficult to find documentary evidence of such crimes to produce offenders on trial, preventive methods should be put in place.
ACC recommended employing honest and meritorious teachers in the preparation of questions, reducing the number of exam centers. Question papers should be kept in a lockbox with a double lock and opened only in the presence of the Eeputy Commissioner, read the letter. It should not be too difficult to find out those corrupt and dishonest officials and teachers who think of the education process as a way of minting money. If due process is followed and exemplary punishment meted out to those who traffic with the education of our nation, it would be no problem at all to solve the question paper leaks.
Why doesn’t the Ministry find out its own black sheep and take stern action against them is the big question. Playing with the education of a nation should be punishable since it is not only destroying the education system but also making people to become dishonest from the beginning. It must stop and none but the government is responsible to stop it.
