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Measures to check cheating

SSC exams begin tomorrow

ATAUL GANI SUMON
The Chittagong Education Board has taken all measures to check cheating in the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations scheduled to begin tomorrow simultaneously with six other education boards, sources said.
The board officials are now also alert to check the leakage of question papers. The education ministry has sent a letter to the board in this regard. The ministry in its letter asked them to be careful during distribution of question papers from the offices to examinations centres, sources said.
The formed 100 vigilance teams comprising board officials, magistrates and teachers to monitor the 99 examination centres.
A total of 69,161 students will appear in the SSC examinations under the Chittagong Education Board, sources said.
Chittagong Education Board increased six centres this year-three in the city and three others at the upazila level.
Meanwhile, the State Minister for Education Ehsanul Haq Milon recently asked the local administration and secretaries of the examination centres to take the video of the vulnerable centres of the public examinations under the board.
He also asked them to send the lists of the vulnerable centres to the local administration, board and the ministry immediately.
The board sources said if any examinee was caught with the copy in the examinations centre will be expelled and will be handed over to law enforcers for summary trial.
The examinees who will carry the copy to the entrance of the examination centres will not face only expulsion but also imprisonment upto two years according to the rules of the Public Examination ( offence) Act,1980, sources said.
'We will enforce the act properly this year,' one official said.
The teachers will also face imprisonment and Monthly Pay Order (MPO) of their schools will be cancelled if they help examinees in adopting unfair means, the education ministry sources said.
'The teachers who will carry out their duties sincerely will be rewarded while anybody found tempering mark sheets or tabulation sheets will face five years' imprisonment.
The ministry of Education said development budget of the educational institutions would be suspended for failure to check cheating in public examinations.
Meanwhile, about 30 thousand examinees from different schools under the Chittagong Board would not be able to appear in the SSC examination as they failed in minimum one subject in their school test examinations.
But the examinees who failed in maximum subjects in the board final examinations would get opportunity to appear in the examinations following year, many guardians said.
The board officials said that it was decided according to the policies relating to the SSC examinations.
'But the rule was not effective in many schools. School authorities gave the permission to the students to sit for examinations those who even failed in two or three subjects in the tests,' sources said.
'If schools followed the rules the number of examinees would be half, they added.
The examinees from 40 schools under the Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) and their guardians laid siege to the city corporation office recently demanding opportunity to appear in the board final examinations those who have failed in at least one subject in school tests.
They alleged that many government and non-government schools of the city and in the district give the opportunity to their students to appear their Board final examination who were failed two or three subjects in their school test examination.
When contacted one of officials of city corporation told the correspondent ' Some of the schools give the opportunity to their students to appear their examination by adopting unfair means to show them pass to the board.'