What are the BCS exams worth?

What have the authorities been doing to stem the rot? By authorities we mean the ministry or the government on one level and the Public Service Commission on the other. There has always been a stock reaction of denial by the PSC whenever allegations of leak were levelled against it either as an outcome of media reportage or public or examinee outcries. With that kind of hiding the head in the sand, truth was hardly ever faced up to. Investigations, even if ordered, ended in a whimper. We would like to know how many have been punished so far for their culpability in question paper leaks?

When such a violation of law is ignored time and time again, the message that willy-nilly gets across to the public domain is that the government is acquiescent. Leakage of question paper is not just a matter of supervision or monitoring failure but devaluing a vital segment of public examinations ruining the future of meritocracy in Bangladesh. It amounts to devaluing a good candidate vis-à -vis a bad one and discouraging year-long preparations for the tests by the persevering and meritorious lot. Either we do something about it and soon enough, or are doomed to be at the mercy of poor quality leadership.

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