Public exams
HC rule on ensuring skilled examiners
STAFF REPORTER
The High Court yesterday issued a rule asking the government to explain why it should not be directed to evaluate the answer sheets of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations by competent and experienced teachers.
It also asked the authorities concerned to explain why they should not be directed to give enough time to the examiner for evaluating the answer sheet. In response to a writ petition, the HC bench comprising Justice Moyeenul Islam Choudhury and Justice JBM Hassan came up with the rule. A total of eleven persons including education secretary and chairman of education board have been respondents to reply to the rule within four weeks.
Advocate Manzill Murshid, filed the petition with the HC on behalf of the Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh (HRPB) on January 1, saying that some answer sheets of SSC and HSC examinations were evaluated reportedly in a faulty manner and the candidate got poor marks. When those answer sheets were re-evaluated they got more number.
In the meantime, few candidates reportedly committed suicide, the petitioner said claiming that this happened as the examiners were not allocated enough time.
