Exams controllers suspended

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Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, while taking serious note of the use of unfair means by students in the ongoing matriculation examinations in the Sukkur region, has placed the service of the controller of examination of the Sukkur educational board under suspension.Education Minister Syed Sardar Ali Shah acting on the directives of the CM visited different examination centres in the Sukkur region and found students openly resorting to the use of unfair means in their matriculation examinations at some centres.He reported to the chief minister that not only cheating was being committed at a few examination centres but there were credible reports that contents of the question paper were also issued by the Sukkur educational board at a centre before the start of the examination.The CM on the report of the education minister suspended Abdul Sami Soomro, controller of examination, Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Sukkur, and gave the charge of the controller of examination to the deputy controller. A notification to this effect has also been issued.The CM directed the administrations of all the educational boards to strengthen their examination system, otherwise similar action would be taken against relevant officers of the educational boards.In a late evening development, the CM also suspended Mansoor Ahmed Zai, the controller of examination of the BISE Hyderabad. The deputy controller of examination BISE Hyderabad has been handed over the charge of the controller of examination.SHC orders issuing admit cardsThe Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday directed the BSEK to issue admit cards to matric students of a private school so that they could take the second exam of the matriculation examinations.The direction came on a petition of the private school’s students who approached the SHC after the matric board did not issue admit cards to them for matric exams making them unable to appear in the matric examinations that started on Monday. Petitioners’ counsel Munsif Jan submitted to the SHC that the petitioners had not been issued admit cards for the matric exams due to which they missed their first exam on Monday.A division bench of the SHC, headed by Justice Mohammad Ali Mazhar, was informed by a counsel for the matric board that the school management had failed to submit forms for admit cards on time. The BSEK lawyer said the board was trying to urgently prepare admit cards for the students and they could take the admit cards later in the day.The SHC observed that it appeared that the school management had sent the forms of the students to the BSEK controller of examination after unjustified delay. The court also called the principal of the private school to appear before it on April 9. The BSEK counsel undertook before the court that the petitioner students could approach the controller of examination to receive their admit cards so that they could appear in the second paper of the matriculation exams while the admit cards for the remaining students would be sent to the school for distribution.Taking the undertaking of the BSEK counsel on record, the SHC adjourned the matter till April 9 and directed the matric board to issue admit cards without any delay.

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