Ensure refund of extra fees for HSC, SSC examinations
The High Court yesterday ordered the government to make the schools and colleges refund extra fees charged from candidates of Secondary School Certificate and Higher Secondary Certificate exams for taking their tests within 30 days.
Activities of the existing management committees and governing bodies of those educational institutions would otherwise be suspended, said the HC.
During a hearing on a suo moto rule, the court cautioned that no educational institutions could charge additional fees from the SSC and HSC examinees to let them sit for the their exams.
It also said no school and college would refuse to allow any student to fill up their registration forms for taking part in exams if they failed to pay extra fees.
The HC bench of Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice Mohammad Ullah came up with the order during the hearing on the suo moto rule issued by it in 2014 questioning the legality of charging extra fees from the examinees.
Mizanur Rahman, lawyer for Dhaka Education Board, told The Daily Star that the HC yesterday passed the order as it noticed that some educational institutions were charging additional fees from the SSC and HSC examinees, violating its 2015 order.
The court in January 2015 directed the government to make the schools and colleges refund extra fees charged from the candidates within 15 days.
The management committees of those institutions would otherwise be dissolved, and the members would be barred from holding any position in such committees for three years, the HC had said in its order.
The HC order will remain in force, Mizanur added.
Deputy Attorney General Tapas Kumar Biswas represented the government.
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