Biman’s top officials involved in recruitment exams question paper leak must face punishment

Biman Bangladesh recently suspended a recruitment exam two hours before the scheduled exams upon the question paper leak allegation. Records indicated the leak was not a spur-of-the-moment decision by any lower-level official but may have been an elaborate plot executed over several months by members of Biman’s top brass. However, nobody is suspended or faces the music of legal action.
A series of seemingly coincidental, dubious transfers and personnel placements took place involving at least three members of the committee responsible for preparing the question papers, to put the right people at the right place at the right time. One of them is Major Taiz Ibne Anowar, general manager of the ground service equipment department and deputy general manager of the security department. Both Taiz and Biman’s Managing Director Zahid Hussain rejected that they had any link with the leak. The culprits cascaded the question paper in exchange for money.
According to an administrative order dated April 26, 2022, signed by the Biman MD himself, the recruitment committee was to have a ministry official on it. But there are no official records — internal documents, attendance sheets or minute records from any of the committee’s meetings — that this committee took in any ministry official. State Minister for Civil Aviation M Mahbub Ali said apart from law enforcement agencies, an internal investigation is going on and stern actions will be taken against those involved in the question paper leak.
The moral derailment of top officials of the national flag carrier, their appointment breaching norms, and lack of monitoring and accountability from the ministry and sheer negligence to the national interest by the top brass is detrimental. For the sake of the nation, the officials should be terminated, and books under laws and reformation in the aviation sector should be initiated. Our national pride and dignity have turned upside down and we must fix it.