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PSC yet to decide on fresh date for 24th BCS exams

UNB, Dhaka
The Public Service Commission (PSC) is still to decide on a fresh date for preliminary tests of the controversial 24th BCS examinations, which was cancelled following allegations of question paper leakage.
The probe committee, formed to investigate the question paper leakage, has not submitted its report to the PSC yet, and hence the delay, a senior member of PSC told UNB yesterday. FROM PAGE 12
"What happened the first time was unfortunate. But if it occurs a second time, it will be definitely dangerous. That's why we do not want to take any risk," said PSC member Prof Dr Mohammad Mohabbat Khan.
Prof Khan informed that the probe committee, which has some more work to do, would submit its report "very shortly."
The PSC will meet after receiving the report and decide on its next plan of action as well as fresh dates for the examination.
With the cancellation of the preliminary tests of the 24th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examinations, annual recruitment of government officers has stalled leaving thousands of job seekers in limbo.
Meanwhile, the viva examination of the 22nd BCS examination ended yesterday; examinations for the 23rd (special) BCS are yet to be held.
The preliminary tests of the 24th BCS examinations were held on February 28 amid allegations of leakage of questions.
Some 1,20,500 examinees appeared in the tests for 4,540 available government posts. The
examinations were held simultaneously at 111 centres in Dhaka, Chittagong, Rajshahi and Khulna, and at one centre in London.
Many examinees alleged that questions were leaked out in the city the night before the exams and each photocopy of the entire set of questions was sold at around Tk 10,000.
A Dhaka University student went to the Ramna Police Station with the photocopy of a handwritten question paper to file a general diary on the day of examination, one-and-a-half hours before the tests began.
Initially, PSC chairperson Prof. ZN Tahmida Begum brushed aside the allegation calling it a rumour. She also dismissed the suggestion of cancelling the test.
Later on March 3, the PSC cancelled the preliminary test following an emergency meeting in the backdrop of widespread protests. On March 6, the PSC formed a three-member probe committee to investigate the allegation of question paper leakage.
In June last year, questions of the test for appointment of assistant teachers in primary schools were leaked and a fresh test was taken.