LAHORE, Oct 15: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education has deleted the online registration of Government College University’s 42 students, for their registration was already claimed by a private college.

BISE Secretary Zafar Javed Iqbal Chishti told Dawn on Monday a formal letter would be sent to the GCU on Tuesday (today) so that it (the GCU) could get them re-registered. The online registration of these students was denied by the board’s software earlier when the GCU tried to get them registered.

The GCU deputy registrar gave a formal presentation to the board secretary earlier in the day and said the varsity was in a fix in registering its 42 students online because the board software responded that the students had already been registered.

He said 35 of 42 students had been registered by the Punjab College, three by the KIPS College, one by the Christian College, while three students were denied registration as they were supposed to submit NOCs from the education boards, from where they had cleared their matriculation examinations.

Mr Chishti said the GCU had formally applied for the rectification of this problem and provided all relevant record, including attendance of all students in question. He said 17 of the total 42 students had got their registration with the private college cancelled on their own.

“We have access to the software and will delete remaining 25 students’ online registration and allow the GCU to re-register them,” he added.

The board secretary said the Punjab College would be informed about the deletion of “their” students’ online registration with the board.

About Punjab College’s assertion that it had registered students after completing all formalities and would cancel registration only after claiming dues, the secretary said the issue was being resolved at the institutional level and the students would not be asked to pay any money to the private college. — Mansoor Malik