We express our concern over the authorities’ failure to stop medical admission test question paper leaks in the government and private medical college first year enrolment process. Such criminal offence is very unfortunate for a nation as question paper leaks destroy the hopes and futures of brilliant and talented students.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Sunday has arrested 12 people, including seven doctors, in connection with leaking question papers of the medical college admission test. And this racket has leaked medical college admission test question papers at least 10 times in the last 16 years, a high up of CID says.
At least 80 active members of a racket have earned hundreds of crores of taka by illegally admitting hundreds of students to medical colleges in the last 17 years. Among the arrestees, four were associated with the BNP and one with the Jamaat-e-Islami.
Around 15 lakh students from all over the country will take part in this year' HSC exams scheduled to start on August 17. Every year, a gang becomes active when public examinations start and leaks questions in various ways, according to CID.
The government must take
strict action against those who
pollute the examination process
The CID also identified many fraud members involved in the question paper leak of SSC, HSC, Dhaka University admission test and BCS and brought them under law.
Recently, the cyber police of the CID found a huge syndicate that regularly leaks questions in the admission tests of the medical colleges of the country. CID has found evidence of transaction information of crores of taka from their bank accounts, and the matter is currently under investigation for potential money laundering.
We have been noticing since long, although the law enforcers detained many people in connection with the question leaks in medical admission tests and other public examinations, they could not track down the main players. As a result, the talented youths are failing to get enrolled while a section of dishonest people are getting chance in exchange of huge amount of bribe money.
And when these dishonest students will complete their MBBS degree, they will also be involved in corruption, misappropriation of money and misuse of power instead of providing services to people. Therefore, the authorities concerned must take stern measures to check question paper leakage in any government medical college admission test process.
The government must take strict action against those who pollute the examination process. Alongside taking strong security measures, the government will also have to develop some innovative systems including introduction of lottery to choose question sets and special security envelope so that the question papers are not leaked.