Education Minister Dipu Moni tabled the 'Intermediate and Secondary Education (Amendment) Bill 2021', which was the House passed by a voice vote on Sunday. Earlier, Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury scrutinised the report on the bill and settled the amendment proposals. However, the existing law does not allow the authorities to publish any results without actually holding the HSC and equivalent examinations. As such, the education minister presented the Intermediate and Secondary Education (Amendment) Bill 2021, Bangladesh Technical Education Board (Amendment) Bill 2021 and Bangladesh Madrasa Education Board (Amendment) Bill 2021 in parliament on Jan 19. Dipu Moni said that the new laws propose that in cases of epidemics, pandemic, natural calamities or due to any other unavoidable circumstances, if it is not possible to hold exams, publish results or issue certification, an evaluation method could be allowed by the government to release the results and give out certificates without holding exams or by arranging exams on short syllabuses.

Source: bd News24 January 24, 2021 06:22 UTC