Form fill-up procedure of the 2021’s HSC examinees started on Thursday. For the first time, the full process will be conducted through a software to ensure the fee determined by Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka.
Examinees will be able to submit all necessary information and fill the forms, guided by respective educational institutions, till August 25 this month and make payment till August 30. The whole activity will be online.
Earlier on July 31, the Dhaka Board of Secondary and Higher Education issued a notification, signed by Exam Controller of Dhaka and inter education boards Prof Amirul Islam, stating the necessary directives, dates and determined fees.
The notification said, this time there will be no pre-selection test and no educational institution can charge any fee in this regard. If one violates this directive, action will be taken. Only validly registered students can fill the forms. Unauthorized registration forms will be canceled without any notification.
The notice further stated, educational institutions will have to log in to the education board’s website to get the list of probable candidates and continue the form fill-up process with a ‘EIIN’ and password.
Once logged in, board and center fees will be set automatically in the software. The college will only enter the amount of money owed to the examinee in the software. An SMS will then be sent to the registered phone number of the examinee or guardian, stating the amount of money.
This year, the fees for science group students have been set at Tk 1,160 and Tk 1,070 for humanities and business studies.
After submitting the necessary information, students will be sent a link to pay through SMS. Using it or using Sonali Bank's Sonali e-service app, one can pay through the payment gateway. The fee can also be paid through the payment gateway from the student panel of the board's website.
In addition, they will be able to make the payment through mobile banking services including Nagad, bKash, Rocket, Upay and Sonali e-wallet. Besides, any fees can be paid using Visa Card, Master Card, American Express, Dutch Bangla Bank's Nexuspay etc. In case of online payment, service charge will be deducted.
All information will be digitally documented. If an institution charges extra fee, it will be recorded. Besides, no one will be able to collect additional fees by showing various non-institutional charges.
Although the Ministry of Education and education boards direct schools and colleges to stop the collection of additional fees every year, many schools and colleges keep ignoring these instructions.
Even amid corona pandemic, a large number of educational institutions of the country have already charged extra money allegedly, showing different institutional fees, before filling up SSC and HSC examination forms.
In this regard, the coordinator of the Inter-Education Board who is also the chairman of the Dhaka Education Board, Professor Nehal Ahmed recently told the media, “Until now, outside the board fees, educational institutions used to collect money by showing various excuses, which did not have any documents.”
He said, “Now it will be highly transparent to know how much the institution charges from individual examinee including tuition fees. Candidates will also be provided with documents. Therefore, an organization will not be able to collect additional fees if it wants to.”
However, if a student or guardian finds any issue related to filling up HSC form or charging extra money, they have been asked to contact the following phone numbers in the control room of Dhaka Education Board. The numbers are- 02-9669815, 02-56110181, 02-58610248, 01610711307, 01625638508, 01722797963.
