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deals with BCL to share a lesser portion ofthe booty.
BCL units also had to strike deals with JCD and Shibir for their shares of the money wherever the latter two had dominating positions, according to our local correspondents.
Our Chittagong correspondent confirmed that Shibir leaders charged money for admissions to Chittagong Government College and Government Hazi M Mohsin College.
Admitting to the existence of admission trade' by student leaders on college campuses across the country. Joint Secretary to the Education Ministry Mainuddin Khondokar, who is in charge of looking after colleges, told The Daily Star, "It happened only where college administrations, especially the principals, are spineless."
"Taking advantage of the inactivity of principals, student leaders in collusion with administrative clerks carried out such trade. And sometimes some teachers also became a part of such extortion in many private colleges," he added.
He, however, claimed this year the prevalence of such extortion Was lessor than before, since many courageous principals stood up against such activities. He noted that only a political will on the part of the ruling and opposition political parties could stop such activities in the nation's colleges.
But a teacher of Dhaka College said the situation actually was worse this year.
College admission season has been a business season for student leaders on campuses for long. In exchange for admission opportunities for students on waiting lists, student leaders have been extorting 'service charges' for many years. The student leaders usually create pressure on college administrations for permission for such 'business privileges', wielding their connections with political part)'honchos.
"College administrations usually don't resist the student leaders fearing retribution, while clerks quite often partake in the practice for a share of the money," said the Dhaka College teacher who preferred anonymity.
This year the admission trade got a shot in the arm for two reasons - a jump in the number of secondary school
graduates with GPA-5, and the government's decision to enrol students at colleges on the basis • of their secondary school exam -ination marks, instead of admission tests - the Dhaka College teacher observed.
"After a record number of 45,934 students of eight education boards received the highest score of GPA-5 this year, many students and guardians anticipated that admissions to well reputed colleges would be very difficult, " he added.
Most of the admission seekers took admission forms from multiple colleges, and were allowed admission to multiple colleges as well. As a result a large number of seats remained vacant after the first round of admissions, making it necessary to allow admissions to students on waiting lists. And that became the boon for business seeking student leaders. It was easier for them to extort admission seekers since there was no admission test, the teacher said.
On the logic behind introducing GPA based admission process instead of any admission test, the joint secretary to the education ministry said the tests were avoided in order to lift die burden of admission coaching from the ShPUia&s’oT'Secondary school graduates.
According to news reports 'entrepreneurial' student leaders even vandalised college administration buildings and furniture, assaulted teachers, and even interrupted admission tests several times, when they faced resistance from college authorities.
During the recent admission season, BCL leaders were the 'market leaders' since their erstwhile mother party is in power now, the sufferers alleged.
A faction of BCL at Dhaka Polytechnic Institute vandalised its offices and classes demanding permission for admission trade on the campus, according to a recent news report. In some other places, rival factions of BCL fought each other over the booty.
JCD and Shibir also vandalised college campuses on similar demands wherever they had domination at the time.
Chairman of the admission committee of MC College in Sylhet, Prof Ashfaque, was assaulted by JCD goons on July 7, according to a news published inThe Daily Star.