The government has decided to reward Tk 5 lakh leading to the capture of question paper leakers.

A decision in this regard came at a meeting of national monitoring committee on law and order in the education ministry, an official who attended the meeting told The Daily Star.

It comes in the purview of an unstoppable spate of question paper leaks ahead of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations, which began from the first of this month.

In the meeting, the education ministry formed a committee to investigate the allegations regarding question leakage of two SSC examinations held since far.