BAHAWALPUR, June 6: The Punjab Professors and Lecturers Association’s local chapter has accused Bahawalpur Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education chairperson Mrs Bilqees Akram of being corrupt and inefficient.

It has called upon the government to take serious notice of the irregularities.

In a press release issued on Tuesday, the PPLA pledged that the college teachers would leave no stone unturned for their rights if no action was taken against the official. They said the board chairperson had appointed her husband, a retired teacher from Gojran, secrecy officer on a contract ignoring many senior college teachers.

Yet another favourite person, they alleged, had been appointed in the secrecy branch against a higher scale.

Earlier in 2005, when bogus roll number slips were issued to intermediate students, some college teachers had drawn her attention towards the issue but they had to face threats of action. Also the entire responsibility of leakage of papers in the 2004 intermediate examinations was put on the professors, who had informed her about this inefficiency.

The association also alleged that malpractice came to surface in the affiliation of private schools with the BISE. Besides, cash and two insurance policies were made compulsory for the benefit of her relative.

The PPLA expressed concern over, what it said, injustice to the senior academics and called upon the chief minister and education minister to immediately transfer the board chairperson and order an impartial probe against her.