Editorial
Exam centres 17 km from home!
One couldn't be more insensitive to examinees' woes
One has not come across a news item, not in recent times at least, that a large number of SSC candidates of four schools in Mohalchari upazilla in Khgarachari district have to traverse 17 kilometers to appear in the SSC exam. But that is what 300 SSC examinees of the said schools have to do.
Given the condition of terrain and the state of communication in most of the areas in the CHT, it is no wonder that the examinees have to leave home early to be at the exam centre on time. And they have to retrace the same distance after the exam. The parents are not rich enough to rent temporary accommodation during the exams.
The authorities may have their own explanation for the present arrangement. But we feel that nothing can justify putting examinees through such pains to attend what happens to be a very important exam of their school life. If this is not a display of lack of sensitivity to the need of examinees than what is. It is regrettable that the efforts of the local leaders have not yielded results, and even official request by one of the schools to have an exam centre closer to the schools has fallen on deaf ears.
We feel that the upazilla education officer and even the UNO could have devised some arrangement to reduce the hardship of the SSC candidates. Could they have not been more innovative to make life easier for the students? And why is the education board sleeping? It would not have been much of a hassle to rent temporary accommodation to work as examination center. We know that as examinee one has to go to the centre to take exams, but this is a case where the authorities could have brought the exam centre closer to the examinees.
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