'Extra' money being realised from SSC examinees
BCL informs rally about CCC-run 47 schools
Bangladesh Chhatra League yesterday protested realisation of “additional money” from the SSC examinees by the Chittagong City Corporation-run 47 schools.
At a rally on the Chittagong Court Building premises, BCL city unit president Emran Ahmed Emu alleged that the institutions are taking extra Tk 2,800 from each of the SSC examinees in the name of development fund, and coaching and tuition fees.
The authorities also threatened the students not to let them attend the examination if the money is not paid, he alleged.
The leaders demanded return of the money and intervention of the deputy commissioner in Chittagong.
Contacted, Nazmul Haque Duke, chairman of CCC Standing Committee for Education, Health, Family Planning and Health Safety, said the tuition fee for two months were taken as the SSC candidates are under the process until the exam is held.
He said the coaching is optional and its fee will not go to the CCC fund; rather the teachers of the respective schools will get it.
He said the money for development fund is received as the CCC does not get any money from the government to build infrastructures for the schools.