Dhaka: Education secretary Nazrul Islam Khan on Saturday said the results of the first merit list for college admission will be published by Saturday.

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) is trying to restore the ministry website and the results of the first merit list for college admission for the academic session 2015-2016 will be published by today, said the education secretary while talking to UNB over phone in the morning.

The education secretary also urged the admission seekers and the guardians not to worry as the situation will be under control by Saturday.  

He also sought apology to the students and guardians for this.  

Contacted, Prof Abu Bakar Siddik, chairman of Dhaka Education Board, said the results which were supposed to be published on 25 June will be published soon.  

Quoting BUET authorities, the chairman said the aspirants could not see their results on the Education Ministry website due to technical problem.

The BUET authorities said they found the webpage hacked several times and steps have been taken to restore the website soon, he said.

However, the admission seekers could not get their results on the ministry website www.xiclassadmission.gov.bd till 10:00am on Saturday.

The website showed a message informing that the process for publishing the results was underway and new schedule for the results would be announced soon.

Earlier, the education ministry failed to publish the first merit list for college admission twice due to technical fault.  

A total of 11.56 lakh students applied for admission as college admissions have been based on results of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations for the last few years.