KOHAT, June 28: Members of citizen action committee, while accusing some officials in the Kohat Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education of corrupt practices, have demanded action against them.

A meeting of the committee held in the Town Hall on Monday said that a lobby was active in the board which appointed a certain group of teachers as examiners and checkers in examination halls who allegedly got hefty amounts from students for allowing them unrestrained cheating.

Similarly there had been complaints of wrong marking and mistakes in the detailed marks certificates on a large scale just to mint money from candidates as rechecking fees.

They demanded that the board immediately authorize a bank in the city for the submission of fees and forms because the building of the board was very far from the city.

The meeting was attended by union council nazim Mir Zaman Shinwari, president of Tajir Grand Alliance Haji Abid Paracha, district president of PML(N) Sher Khan Bangash, district president of PPP (Sherpao) Mahmood Islam advocate and Israr Shinwari.

They urged NWFP Governor Commander Khalilur Rehman to order an immediate inquiry into the board affairs and award exemplary punishment to the black sheep who were ruining the future of the children.