The Ministry of the Information Communication and Technology will talk to the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) to make the efforts a success, Minister Nahid said. Holding coaching centers sole responsible for the incident of the question paper leakage, Nahid said all the coaching centres across the country will remain closed three days before the SSC examinations begin. He said a vigilance team will keep close watch in the examination centres so that no teacher can unveil the question papers before half an hour of the examinations.
However the reality is that it is Ministry officials themselves who are corrupt. On January 22 Monday a case was filed against Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid’s Personal Officer (PO) Motaleb Hossain, Education Ministry staff Nasir Uddin and Lakehead Grammar School owner Khaled Hasan Motin on various charges after Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested them from different areas of the city. The charges were related to their taking bribes to allow Lakehead Grammar School to run illegally without approval from the Ministry.
If the Ministers PO can be corrupt without the Minister’s knowledge then what use would closing facebook and coaching centres be? In this digital age there are many other media which can be used to propagate information effectively on a mass scale. Instead of developing infrastructure and training teachers closing facebook is close to meaningless.
The Minister should take full responsibility for the failures of the Education Ministry and resign. Neither has he succeeded in closing the leaks of papers, nor has he taken any substantial steps to check corruption in his office. We perhaps don’t need to even mention the negligence in improving educational infrastructure. The Minister should have carried out a thorough investigation to figure out the real culprits behind the leaks —he has had considerable time to do so–but to no avail.In another nation he would have resigned, but he continues merrily without the slightest guilt or worry. Such a Minister should be a backbencher. He must go.
