HSC Admit Card Held Back

All for refusing to have private tuition?

6 April 2010, 18:00 PM

Our Correspondent, Rangpur

Jarin Tasrin, a student of Rangpur Collectorate School and College, could not appear in the ongoing HSC examinations as the institution authorities did not give her admit card before the examination. At a press conference at Rangpur Press Club yesterday, Jarin said Ali-ul Karim Pramanik, lecturer of accounting at the college, influenced the principal not to issue her the admit card as she did not agree to receive private tuition from Ali-ul Karim. "The accounting teacher threatened the students to ruin their academic career if they would not receive private tuition from him. All commerce students of the class except me received private tuition from Ali-ul Karim. I did not go to the teacher for private tuition as my parents could not manage fee for it," Jarin said. "When I went to college to get my admit card before the HSC examinations, the principal asked my parents to pay Tk 20,000 to Ali-ul Karim as compensation for not receiving private tuition. "As we declined to give the money, the principal asked the college employees not to give me admit card," she said at the press conference where her parents Bazlur Rahman and Rehena Yesmin were present. Jarin demanded action against those responsible for her not being able to appear at the HSC examinations. Asked about the matter, Md Ishak Ali, principal of the institution, said, "Jarin was not allowed to fill up form for the final examinations as she failed in accounting in the test examinations. Her parents made contact with Dinajpur education board and she filled up her form without our knowledge. That is why I did not give her admit card.” As this correspondent asked whether it is possible to fill up the HSC form without permission of the college authorities, the principal said, "They managed it with the help of their men working at the board." When asked if Jarin's admit card was sent to him, the principal replied in the affirmative. He, however, denied the allegation of demanding Tk 20,000 from Jarin's parents.