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Head examiner, examiner suspended
Sunday, July 05, 2009
By Muhammad Ejaz Khan
QUETTA: The Balochistan Education Department has suspended the head examiner and examiner after a preliminary inquiry into the use of answer sheets as bread wrappers, said Chairman BISE Dr Ghulam Hussain on Saturday at a news conference.
He said on the directives of the chief minister of Balochistan a thorough probe into the scandal would also be carried out, adding that the examiner and head examiner were also being served show-cause notices to dismiss them.
It has been found that intermediate examination answer sheets were being used as wrappers by bread makers in the provincial capital much before the results were announced.
Contrary to the Balochistan Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) policy to preserve such answer sheets as an official record for at least two years, a bread maker on Jan Muhammad Road was selling breads wrapped in the answer sheets of FA conducted by the BISE in May 2009.
Reports suggested that one person, whose name is yet to be confirmed, approached the bread maker of Jan Muhammad Road in the last week of May and said he was a recycling business owner and sold the answer sheets weighing 11 kilogrammes at the rate of Rs 9 per kilogramme
The papers contained copies of Islamic study, carrying Quranic verses, sources told The News.
The bread maker said the man had disposed of hundreds of answer sheets as wrappers.
When contacted, provincial Education Minister Shafiq Ahmed said the candidates who had appeared in the examinations need not worry about the papers because the board had a complete list of their marks preserved with it.
He added that those professors who were indulging in such activities had been blacklisted while a decision had been taken to mark all FA and FSc papers in the board premises in future.
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