TOBA TEK SINGH, May 28: Hundreds of primary class students, who appeared in annual scholarship examination held under the Punjab Examination Commission (PEC) in Nov 2007, are still waiting for their results.

Some parents of these students told reporters here on Wednesday that their children had been promoted to Class VI but they were not being paid scholarship because of delays in notification of their results.

An official of the education executive district officer (EDO) told Dawn that 2,243 candidates, including 1,237 boys and 1,006 girls, took the examination but the PEC returned result sheets of around 50 per cent candidates to recheck names and roll numbers of the candidates. He said the rechecking process was in progress and lists would be dispatched to the PEC after a through verification of particulars of each and every candidate. He said that results of the remaining 50 per cent were also being compiled.The parents urged Chief Minister Sardar Dost Muhammad Khosa to direct the PEC officials to notify the results immediately.

Meanwhile, Education EDO Malik Bashir Awan on Wednesday visited Pirmahal Government Boys High School No1 where hundreds of answer sheets of middle standard examination candidates were gutted due to a fire in a schoolroom being used as central marking room.

The marking staff told the EDO that the fire broke out apparently owing to a short-circuiting after they had left the room. The EDO, however, ordered an inquiry into the incident.

LHC: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday cancelled Punjab special education secretary's orders transferring the vice-principal of the Federal Government Sultan Bahoo Special Education Centre, Jhang, as Multan special education district officer.Mahmooda Kausr had moved the LHC challenging her displacement and said that her husband was an officer posted at Toba Tek Singh and on her request, the federal government had placed her services on the disposal of Punjab government to post her as headmistress of the Government Deaf and Defective Hearing School, Toba Tek Singh, under its wedlock policy. She said that the Punjab chief secretary ordered the same but later on she was appointed as Multan special education district officer in sheer violation of the orders of the chief secretary.

The court said that the petitioner's three-year deputation period was meant for Toba Tek Singh only and not for any other place, so the orders of her posting at Multan were nullity in the eye of law and the petitioner was entitled to be posted at Toba Tek Singh for a period of three years from the date of her deputation.