This year’s KONKOR exam not only gave rise to a number of controversies like cheating, recommendations and use of illegal means to obtain high marks and acquire admission in the universities of your choice but also left behind thousands of students without any result and public universities closed their doors to them. Now these students are left with two options; either to join a private university and bear its heavy expenses or absolutely quit the field of education and join any other profession.

Both of the above options are at the time difficult and dangerous; majority of the students may not be able to bear the expenses of private universities and if they left the education, they may look for a job which is very difficult to be found in our country and they may fall prey to the illegal ways of earning livelihood like joining militants, drug business or others which provide with an easy way to be rich in very short period of time. It means, we would turn those against us whom the state nourished and educated for 12 years or more.

Along with the above mentioned problems, there are also present a number of other problems that need to be debated and discussed in detail. One of these is the allotment of the university which a candidate doesn’t like. When a student will be studying the subjects that he doesn’t like at all, his interest in the subjects and the university will be next to nil and he will end up either by quitting the university or doing very poor in the exams.

With these, the system of examination has also emerged as a question mark and it has been widely criticized. Similarly, increasing involvement of politicians, warlords, high government officials, ministers and other influential members of society has greatly affected the transparency of these exams. People see the role of ministry of education and higher education behind these problems and accuse them of being involved or supporting the illegal practices in the exam.

Two days’ before, the minister of higher education was summoned to the parliament and there the same accusations were repeated. The ministry vowed to establish a committee to check the health of these accusations and carry out proper investigation and in the light of the findings of this committee, necessary corrective measures would be taken.

It is also needed that top officials of government should interfere in this grave issue and make sure that all the faults present in the lines of ministry and system of education should be repaired and the future of our coming generations should be safeguarded.

It is hoped that serious and constructive steps will be taken in this regard and the complaints brought forward by the public would be dealt with properly.