MARDAN, July 21: NWFP Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah has said the educational boards had an important role in ensuring that educational institutions were imparting quality education.

Speaking on the occasion of ground-breaking ceremony of the new building of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE), Mardan, at Sheikh Maltoon Town here on Sunday, the governor said the government was making efforts to provide quality education to the masses.

Iftikhar Hussain said educational boards were a regulatory authority and their job was to keep an eye on the quality of education imparted at various institutions. He said the BISE was a responsible institution, which had not only to conduct examinations but also to check quality and standard of the education.

The governor asked the chairmen of the intermediate boards of the province to cancel the registration of those institutions which showed poor results and were providing substandard education to the students.

He said that earlier there was one board for the province but now there were six intermediate boards functioning at Peshawar, Bannu, Swat, Abbottabad, D.I. Khan and Mardan.

He lamented that the NWFP was lagging behind other provinces in female education. Moreover, over 0.07 million children in the province did not go to schools.

The governor announced one-month salary for the employees of the BISE Mardan.

In his address of welcome, Chairman of the BISE Mardan, Syed Ghaffar, thanked the governor for taking keen interest in establishing a intermediate board in Mardan.

It may be mentioned that the BISE Mardan started functioning in November in a bungalow at Malakand road, but now the provincial government has purchased land near Sheikh Maltoon Town where building for the BISE would be constructed.