M M Jasim :
The question papers of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination have been leaking since the beginning of the examination on February 1 despite the Education Ministry’s all out measures to check it.
The law enforcers, however, arrested over one hundred persons allegedly involved in question papers leakage and the education boards suspended over 200 students in this connection.
The ministry declared the war against all those people who are involved in the leakage. It also took many initiatives to check. But ultimately the ministry has failed and the leakers have won the battle.
Admitting the ministry’s failure, Secretary (Secondary and Higher Education Division) of the Education Ministry Sohrab Hossain on Thursday in the Secretariat said that around 27,000 to 28,000 people are involved in the process of printing question papers and reaching those to the examination centers. In this circumstances, no one can ensure there won’t be any leak.
In this situation the government is planning to introduce a new method of public examinations from the next year aiming at preventing the widespread question leakage across the country,” the secretary said.
Talking to reporters Sohrab Hossain said, “The public exams will be held in a new method from the next year. We are trying to discover such a method having no possibility of leakage.”
“The fresh method will be introduced in consultation with eminent people and on advice of scholars.”
Replying to a query, Sohrab Hossain said: “We have not received the court directive yet, but we’ll obey its order once we receive it.”
The High Court on Thursday ordered a judicial probe into the allegations of question paper leakage in the ongoing Secondary School Certificate and its equivalent examinations and issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain as to why their failure and inaction to prevent the leakage of question papers should not be declared illegal and unlawful.
Meanwhile, a portion of the officials of the Education Ministry said, the practice of ignorance after the question papers leakage increased the courage of the masterminds of the question papers leakage. And even, the State Minister for Technical and Madrasa Education Md Keramat Ali recently denied the question papers leakage although it was leaked.
