RAWALPINDI, March 20: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) does not have its own building, which has created serious administrative problems affecting its overall performance, it has been learnt.

The BISE doesn’t have its own building for the last 25 years, and presently it is operating in six buildings located at different places.

The chairman and the HSSC branch is located at Sixth Road, controller office and conduct branch at Seventh Road, secrecy, audit, finance and physical education branches at Saidpur Road, establishment branch in a house near Commercial Market and the SSC branch in another building on Sixth Road.

The candidates especially those coming from outstations have to face difficulty when they are sent from one office to another for the solution of their problems.

The board had purchased its own land in 1989 at Morgah near Attock Oil Refinery and wanted to construct its building there, but it was not allowed to do so on the premise that the land was close to the refinery.

The board authorities have been asking the refinery officials to either purchase the land or allow it construct its building, but the latter contend that under the Civil Defence Rules construction of a building near the refinery cannot be allowed.

The human resource manager Attock Oil Refinery, Rana Mohammad Akram, when asked about the issue said, according to the Civil Defence Rules 1951, no construction could be raised within 200 yards of the refinery. He said since the board’s land fell within the specified range, construction of building could not be allowed. Those violating these rules would be subject to legal action under the Pakistan Penal Code, he added.

Mr Akram said the refinery had no role in stopping the board from constructing its office, but it were the rules and regulations enacted by the federal government, which didn’t allow the board to raise any kind of construction there.

“The board officials had sought our permission, but we referred the case to the federal government, and now it is with the interior ministry.”

Mr Akram said they had displayed notices on all sides of the refinery that no construction was allowed within 200 yards. “We do not need the land,” was the quick response when asked why didn’t they buy the land.