Three boards yet to announce inter part-I exam results

Due to adhocism in Sindh’s education boards, frequent changes of board chairmen and appointments of commissioners as chairmen, three of the education boards have not been able to announce the results of intermediate part-I examinations for 10 months now.

For the first time in the history of the province, the results of inter part-I exams have been delayed for so long, and the holding of the inter annual exams in a month and a half seems to be in jeopardy.

The education boards of Hyderabad, Nawabshah and Mirpurkhas are yet to announce the results of inter part-I exams for the science, arts and commerce groups. Moreover, the chief minister of the province and the universities & boards department of the provincial government seem to have no idea about the delay in the announcement of the exam results and about the distress of the students.

Nawabshah education board chairman Dr Muhammad Farooq said: “The caretaker CM appointed the Nawabshah commissioner as the board chairman during his tenure. The process of checking copies and preparing results was stopped, which has been resumed now. We hope to release the results within 10 days.”

As for the Hyderabad board, the Hyderabad commissioner was appointed as the board chairman, while former minister Ismail Rahoo had already appointed Prof Ali Ahmed Brohi of the Department of Sociology of the Sindh University on deputation against the rules and the Supreme Court’s orders.

Similarly, for the past 12 years, Masroor Zai, a deputy controller of grade 18, has been holding onto his post. Whenever he is removed, he gets a stay order from court, then the universities & boards department is unable to take any action.

The Mirpurkhas education board has been without a chairman for the past three weeks. Rahoo had brought in Zulfiqar Shah on deputation from Islamabad as the chairman against the rules and the SC’s orders.

They were removed by the Sindh High Court on the basis of deputation, but since their departure, not only has the process of preparing the exam results stopped but the day-to-day affairs of the board have also been badly affected.

It should be noted that the Karachi commissioner had been appointed as chairman of the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi, which had had an impact on the results of inter part-I exams.

Due to the low result ratio, a committee was formed with NED University Vice Chancellor Dr Sarosh Lodi as its head. The committee announced a strange decision: only the marks of optional subjects of science students were increased, while the marks of compulsory subjects were not.

Due to this, majority of the students could not benefit, and a large number of students failed in the compulsory subjects of English, Urdu, Pakistan Studies and Islamiat.