The Health Ministry has taken all possible security measures to ensure transparency at the medical and dental college admission tests for the 2014-15 academic session scheduled on Friday.
It sent letters to the senior secretary of the Home Ministry, the police chief and the head of Rapid Action Battalion on Monday, asking them to ensure that all medical coaching centres were closed until the admission test, Secretary MM Niaz Uddin said.
The letter said a group of frauds from different coaching centres were allegedly selling question papers to students at high prices, guaranteeing 100% common questions. “We asked the police to keep close all coaching centres until the exams to ensure transparency during the exams,” Niaz told the Dhaka Tribune.
The ministry also formed 23 inspection teams comprising three to five members to inspect the exam centres across the country.
In addition, several law enforcement agencies are monitoring the coaching centres, several high officials at the ministry and the DGHS said.
They are also keeping eye on activities of a few suspected students at different universities, especially Dhaka University, to stop question leakage.
“We are very serious about this and are trying to take the highest precautions to hold a transparent admission test,” Prof Dr ABM Abdul Hannan, director of medical education at the DGHS, said yesterday.
The principals of the institutions where the test will be held, as well as other officials, have been instructed to ensure proper screening of the candidates with the help of magistrates and other law enforcers.
A total of 69,477 candidates have applied to appear in the test for both government and private medical and dental colleges this year. The test will be held at 35 centres under 23 public medical and dental colleges.
