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SSC exams

Private schools owners accused of influencing board staff

From Our Correspondent

JHANG: The Faisalabad Intermediate and Secondary Education Board administration has also set up examination centres in private schools and colleges to facilitate the candidates of secondary school certificate (SSC) examinations 2016.

Sources told on Tuesday that some superintendents of examination centres had allegedly started changing duties of invigilators allegedly on the choice of private schools administration. Sources claimed that some owners of private schools were allegedly trying to provide extraordinary facilities to the students of their schools at the examination centres. The sources said that after a public complaint, the BISE administration informed that the head of a examination centre set up at Satellite Town’s private college was allegedly involved in deploying selective invigilators during the SSC examinations without permission and against the policy of the board. When contacted, BISE Controller of Examinations Dr Zafar Iqbal Tahir on telephone told that it had been ensured that the candidates of private schools were not allotted examination centres set up in their own school. He said that he had reviewed the complaint about irregularity during assigning invigilators duties at the Satellite Town’s examination centre. He said that he had already issued directions to the concerned officials for deploying invigilators strictly on merit and as per policy of the board.