Undeserving students in MEPhI

Building the Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is not the only job Rosatom (State Nuclear Energy Corporation of Russia) does. They are also responsible for maintenance, supervision and staff training wherever they are building NPP. As part of training professionals, they rely on MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), a specialised institution with a view to training skilled personnel for the Soviet military and atomic programmes only. But as of now MEPhI has opened a specialised programme for incoming students from different countries where Rosatom is building NPP and providing them with extensive theoretical and practical education required to work in different posts in a nuclear power station. Because of the placement guarantee and stipend, students get it's no surprise that freshers, sophomores or even seniors from different famous universities are also coming here. 

Last year from Bangladesh, 10 students were demanded for this specialist programme through the ministry of education but unfortunately the information was not easily available for most of the students and thus some cunning students of questionable calibre have availed this invaluable opportunity. The syllabus for programme is carefully devised and is meant for students of very high aptitude. It is feared that if this continues in the coming years, then some of the most prestigious and sensitive posts in our first nuclear power station will be chaired by some unworthy greenhorns. It is expected that proper intervention of the Bangladesh government and Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission will prevent any such consequence by actively engaging in selecting and monitoring the coming students for the nuclear programme.

Md. Ali Mahdi
National Research Nuclear University MEPhI
Moscow, Russia