department preferred to exhaust the candidates, who are coming from far off areas of Rawalpindi divisions, stood in a kilometre long queues for submission of their papers.
Then came the day when candidates had to see their names in the merit list where names of those candidates were printed who had to appear before an interview panel. The Education Department once again held a ‘healthy competition’ by pasting printed A-4 size papers on black boards with names of students written on them in a way that one could only see his/her name from a distance of a single foot. The blackboards were placed out at Dannie’s High School over an open sewerage line and giving candidates another physical task to clear. This way the Education Department not only verified the eyesight of the candidates but their physical strength to get on to the board in a completely crumbled manner.
The Education Department also promoted ‘gender equality’ this way as both men and women were on the same page and same blackboard. For the Education Department this also eased out their troubles as number of candidates failed to see their names and thus added into the comforts of this department officials. Then came the day when interviews were to be conducted. The ‘brave warriors’ (candidates) facing all odds gathered at the same venue for interviews and there were no such kind of things. The candidates were directed to locate their files that they had submitted for this purpose. Some lucky candidates managed to find these while the ordinary could not find and it was told that their files were lost. Number of students were neither on the list of successful candidate nor on the list of rejected candidates. After this, a provisional list of candidates was pasted in a similar manner and then a final list had to be pasted on March 5 and March 11 but the candidates came to know that a stay has been granted by a local court in this regard. Surely this is to test the mental toughness of the candidates that how they would react to some shocking news.
Executive District Officer-Education EDO-E Qazi Zahoorul Haq while responding to all this said that the online system could have had eased out the work load for Education Department but it was not in policy provision. Regarding uploading of lists online EDO-E said that they did it accordingly at the website of Rawalpindi District Government. Contrary to the claims of EDO-E, the list of candidate was uploaded days after it was put on the minutely scripted papers at Dannie’s High School.
Now EDO-E says that the list of BPS-16 candidates will be displayed on March 14, of BPS-14 on March 16 and of BPS-09 on March 22.