PESHAWAR, July 10: NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani has said that establishment of the education testing and evaluation agency (ETEA) was an indication of distrust on intermediate and secondary boards, therefore, the boards should work honestly to regain confidence of people.

He was presiding over a meeting of the board of governors of the ETEA at the Chief Minister Secretariat in Peshawar on Monday.

Provincial Education Minister Fazle Ali Haqqani, Director ETEA Abdur Rauf Jameel, Vice Chancellor Engineering University Syed Imtiaz Hussain Gillani, MD FEF Ali Begum, secretary higher education Sahibzada Mohammad Khalid, secretary health Abdul Samad khan, Principal KMC Peshawar, secretary finance and others were also present on this occasion.

The chief minister asked the authorities concerned to make the existing examination system more transparent and discourage those teachers who wanted to perform duties during the examinations.

The meeting took certain important decisions about examinations. It decided to hold entry test for admissions to the engineering university on 20th of August and test for medical colleges on September 17.

The weightage of marks, it decided, would be 50 per cent of FSc and 10 per cent of Metric exams and 40 per cent of entry test. It may be mentioned here that earlier the weightage of entry test was 50 per cent.

The meeting decided to deploy personnel of the Frontier Constabulary for surveillance. It also decided that mobile phones, calculators and data recording watches would not be allowed in the test.

Chairman of the Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education, on this occasion, revealed that result of the FSc exams would be announced on August 10, 2006.

The meeting also approved the budget and revision of salaries of the staff of the ETEA.—PPI