Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid has said BNP-Jamaat’s street violence has resulted in a 5% decrease in the HSC success rate this year.
In a written answer – distributed to the lawmakers and journalists yesterday in parliament – to a query from Awami League lawmaker Shadhana Halder, Nahid said the authorities had to shift the timetables of 33 HSC papers this year.
Halder, however, was absent during yesterday’s session of the House. She had earlier placed a question for the minister asking how many times the government had to change the schedules of the HSC examination due to BNP-Jamaat’s hartal, violence, vandalism and arson attacks. She also wanted to know about the reduction in the pass rate.
Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury did not table the question because of Halder’s absence.
Replying to another query from BNP lawmaker ABM Ashraf Uddin Nizan, who was also absent, the minister told the House that the government had directed the authorities of the private universities to form anti-narcotic committees. Besides, they had been told to install closed-circuit TV cameras on their campuses.
“The committees [anti-narcotics] have been counseling the students against drug addiction,” said Nahid.
