LAHORE, Oct 2: Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education’s Controller of Examinations Anwar Farooq says “notorious” teachers are being engaged to hold matriculation and intermediate supplementary examinations.

Speaking at a news conference at board’s committee room on Tuesday, Mr Farooq admitted that heads of educational institutions recommended only “notorious” teachers to serve as supervisory staff in supplementary examinations and “hold back good teachers on a plea that they are busy in taking classes.”

It may be mentioned that a large number of Intermediate Part-I students had staged a protest demonstration in front of board offices against the BISE administration for declaring them absent in different papers. Mr Farooq, however, claimed that when they asked the protesters to give their roll numbers and identities they refused to do so. “The protesters were motivated by `someone’. They were degree classes’ students,” he alleged.

Earlier, BISE Chairman Nasrullah Virk said the board had found 1,712 candidates as absent, while 292 candidates had posted wrong roll numbers on their answer scripts in Intermediate Part-I annual examination. Answering a question that why the discrepancies of wrong roll number or not marking present in the attendance sheet were not detected and rectified by the supervisory staff at examination centres, Mr Virk admitted negligence on the part of supervisory staff. He said the board also organised pre-examination workshops to train the supervisory staff to handle issues at examination centres.

Mr Virk said the board had received 35 applications pertaining to correction of wrong roll numbers. Each candidate was supposed to pay Rs1,000 roll number correction fee.