KARACHI: BSE’s failure to deliver admit cards irks students
KARACHI, Feb 28: A number of enraged candidates aspiring to appear in the SSC examinations of the Karachi Board of Secondary Education commencing from March 1, pelted the Board Office with stones on Thursday, smashing the windowpanes at the first floor of the building, an official of the Board said.
He said that the personnel of the law enforcement agencies dispersed the candidates who were protesting against the non- issuance of admit cards.
The BSEK official said that the Board had issued communications to the heads of the institutions before February 23 to the effect that they should collect the admit cards by sending their representatives with authority letters. Instead they sent the students to collect the cards and that created problems.
He said that the number of candidates was increasing every year, whereas there was a shortage of staff at the Board; there was also a ban on overtime which had further affected the output.
BSEK chairman, Mohammad Aziz Ansari, however, said in press conference that all the arrangements had been completed for the conduct of SSC examinations for regular and private candidates, commencing from March 1.
He said as many as 303 examinations centres had been set up in and around Karachi; one of them at the Karachi Central Jail to facilitate imprisoned candidates.
Ansari said that the principal secretary to the governor, the provincial secretary of education, the secretary home department and the heads of law enforcement agencies had been apprised of the details of the examination centres and the date sheets.
He said that emergency and vigilance squads had also been set up. Five special vigilance teams consisting of retired and in-service grade 20 officers would undertake surprise visits to examination centres.
He said that officials of law enforcement agencies, including the director general rangers, the IGP Sindh, the DIG Karachi and the DCO Karachi had been asked to make necessary security arrangements.
He said that all the schools had been directed to release admit cards of candidates having 60 per cent attendance and eight private and public schools had been blacklisted for their past record in connection with examinations.—APP\PPI
BSEK ANNOUNCEMENT: The BSEK has announced that the failures of SSC Part-II examinations who are appearing in the SSC annual examinations, commencing from March 1, can also take the examinations along with the fresh candidates, adds our staff reporter.
The decision was taken by the board in view of its inability to deliver the admit cards to students in time. Due to interruption in BSE’s workings on Wednesday, some candidates were not able to receive their cards till late there is a possibility that they may miss the examinations on Thursday or the day after, said a senior official of the Board.
According to BSE schedule of examinations, the papers of failure candidates will be held from March 1 to 5, while the examinations of fresh students, both of Class IX and X, will be held from March 6 and 7 for general and science groups respectively.
It was further learnt that BSE would sent all admit cards to schools for onward delivery to students concerned and no card would be issued to students directly at the board’s office.
Meanwhile, a BSE notification said that all those eligible candidates of SSC annual examination-2002 who had submitted the examination forms but could not receive their admit cards would be given a chance to appear in the left over papers. No candidate would be deprived of his or her chance to appear in examination.
BSE has asked the heads of recognised secondary schools not to send any regular or ex student to collect his or her admit card from BSE office, otherwise their recognition would be withdrawn and their students would be treated as private candidates.
The notification further said that the heads of institutions who did not receive the admit cards of SSC Part-II Science group upto March 4 could send a representative with authority letter alongwith Bank receipt on March 5 to collect the admit cards.
BATON CHARGE CONDEMNED: Meanwhile, in view of the Board’s failure to deliver admit cards to candidates in time, the coordination committee of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, in a statement, has demanded of the competent authorities to delay the commencement of SSC annual examinations-2002.
The committee also condemned the police action against the students who had come to the BSE to collect their admit cards.
The delay in delivery of admit cards to candidates had caused concern among the students and their parents, while the future of the candidates in question was also uncertain, the committee observed.
The committee urged the president and the governor to take notice of the baton-charging of students and take action.
