In 1999 on March 06, this movement was launched in order to save the nation from a disaster and discrimination. Nobody can imagine what a disastrous atmosphere had prevailed in the education sector during that time. Chhatrobondhu Miah Abdullah Wazed former MP called upon the mass people to participate in his movement. So people joined. Diplomats and leaders from home and abroad cooperated Mr. Wazed for this movement to turn it into a social movement. Now 10 years have passed. Success is ours-Unfair means has been rooted out though not completely but overwhelmingly, disastrous atmosphere in the education sector is on the healing position. The percentage of passed students has been improved; The rate of pass of SSC examinees in 1999 was 54.13%, in 2000 41.58%, in 2001 35.22%, in 2002 41.65%, in 2003 35.91%, in 2004 48.03%, in 2005 52.57%, in 2006 62.22%, in 2007 57.37%, in 2008 72.11%, in 2009 67.41%, in 2010 79.98%. Similarly the rate of pass of HSC examinees in 1999 was 53.40%, in 2000 37.03%, in 2001 26.11%, in 2002 27.08%, in 2003 38.43%, in 2004 47.60%, in 2005 59.74%, in 2006 63.92%, in 2007 65.60%, in 2008 76.19%, in 2009 70.43%, in 2010 74.28%.Thanks to all who cooperated us, joined our movement and worked with us

Story behind the movement (in brief)

It was Saturday morning March 6, 1999. On March 4, S.S.C examinations began throughout the country. As I used to do politics, it was my political work to go to my native village once a week to meet people there, exchange views with the people of my party and so on. I used to go there Thursday evening or Friday morning and come back to Dhaka on Saturday evening. This was my weekly routine. For this very reason on March 6 Saturday, I stayed at my village in Kuti of Kasba thana under Brahmonbaria district. Though I am a former Member of Parliament, people of the village call me Mr. M.P.

On March 6, 1999, no sooner had I finished my breakfast than Munshi Fazlur Rahman, Nurul Islam Mollah, Ershad Miah, Shishu Miah accompanied by a number of young people came to me and requested me to go to one of the examination centers. I could not understand the head and tail of it and asked them which center and why I needed to go there. In reply they said that from the beginning of the S. S. C examination on March 4 a magistrate, Jahangir Alam, on duty in Kuty Otal Bihary High School had assumed a stern look in curbing unfair means among the students in the center. They added that he made the police chase the people staying around the center. I understood that they needed me to facilitate the opportunity for corruption, yet l asked them what I could do as I had not gone there even when I was an M. P. They said that I brought the center when I was an M. P. and 28% of the students had passed in 1998 from this school. However, a terrible thing might happen this year if they could not show that 40% of the students passed - the center could even be cancelled. Due to what the magistrate was doing, rate of students passed would not exceed 10%, they claimed. They said my unwillingness to go to the center would result in a clash between the police and guardians of students, resulting in harmful effects on the school. Being alarmed at the possibility of a clash, I asked them what my role would be there. In reply they said, `You do nothing but keep the magistrate busy on chat for an hour or so, and that might achieve our goal'. I understood that they wanted me keep the magistrate away from his duty to make room for corruption for the students. I agreed to go helplessly. The total number of candidates was nearly six hundred in the center but the number of people around the center would be around two to three thousand - as I observed when I reached the center. On my arrival at the center, I entered the room of the headmaster. The magistrate, being informed of my arrival, came to meet me. As I was exchanging views with the magistrate, he let me know that he had been well aware of my activities. I was pleased and asked him to help me. I made my purpose clear to him - last year 28% of the candidates had passed from this school and if we failed to make 40% of them pass this year, the school would suffer and if there was a clash, the center would be cancelled. I said that I would be pleased if he would do nothing that would harm the school and the center. I implied him to give the students an opportunity to resort to unfair means (copying). The magistrate, after a long discussion, assured me that he would not be so strict in his activities so that the school would not suffer and the center would not be cancelled but that was on one condition. The condition goes as he said," promise me today that you will think about our ominous crisis in education sector, you will do something against the tendency to resort to unfair means among the students'. He asked for assurance of my acceptance of the promise. On the very day, going to Miah Abdullah Wazed Mohila College, which I founded, I held a meeting with people from all walks of life including teachers, and launched a movement. The name was accepted later as Shikkhar Maan Songrakkhan O Nokol Protirodh Andolon which in English is - "Movement for Preservation of Standard Education and Prevention of Unfair Means". This is how on March 6, 1999, the movement began. I selected my native thana Kasba as a model of the movement.