Admission crisis

Rafiqul Islam Rime, Agrabad, Chittagong

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The acute shortage of schools and colleges in our country is a burgeoning crisis. However, this situation in the schools in the port city of Chittagong demands a serious attention from the authorities concerned as well as the guardians. The prevalent crises are manifold: i) shortage of schools government and the private ones, ii) prevalence of corruption it is almost an open phenomenon known to all that there are some evil forces at work at almost all the good schools both government run and the private ones that arrange some admissions illegally in exchange of money. These evil forces work in a syndicate like a cobweb -- in all these institutions. One becomes hopeless when one happens to confront these anomalies at such places. Budding learners, as a result, get a wrong impression of things at their tender age. Under such circumstances, we urge the ministry of education and other relevant authorities to look into the facts and come hard on the criminals without delay and thereby salvage the holy places of learning as well as the learners.