Frequent question papers leakage!
Agrani Bank’s recruitment test for senior officers was postponed yesterday because of leaked questions. This is becomingly an increasingly common phenomenon in our country and the authorities don’t seem to be as concerned about it as they should be. Last week, Prothom Alo published a report on leaked Math questions of a secondary school certificate exam. But since then, we haven’t heard of any stern actions taken by the concerned authorities to trace or arrest the culprits.
It is alarming that even some parents are encouraging their children to acquire questions illegally when they see other students getting ahead of the race academically. They have no alternative but to become part of this moral culture that everyone is participating in.
Thousands of qualified, educated youth come to Dhaka to sit for these tests, all the way from Kurigram or Rangpur. The journey costs tem around Tk 1,000 – the equivalent of a month’s tuition salary that pay back home. They reach Dhaka to find that the tests have been postponed due to leaked papers. Will the Agrani Bank bear the transportation costs of these struggling candidates? Is it their fault that they cannot purchase a job with Tk 5 or 10 lakh like others?
We urge the authorities, especially the Education Minister, to take concrete and substantive action to put an end of this diabolical trend. We do not want hear any more political rhetoric.
Juel Rana
Dhaka
