Dhaka education board chairman announces resignation 

Professor Tapan Kumar Sarkar, chairman of Dhaka Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board, has announced his resignation in the face of protests led by students demanding revaluation of HSC results and its equivalent examinations.

He may submit his resignation from the post of chairman to the Ministry of Education on Monday.

Witnesses said a group of students under the banner of ‘HSC-Batch 2024’ entered the Dhaka Education Board premises and staged a demonstration opposing the HSC results and terming it ‘discriminatory.

On 15 October, the results of HSC and its equivalent examinations were published.

Terming the results as discriminatory the students demanded the government to publish the results through mapping of all subjects.