SANGHAR, April 14: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Hyderabad, has decided to allow 57 students of the Government Girls’ College, Sanghar, to appear in the examinations, commencing from April 24, the college’s principal, Prof Salma Khatoon, said here on Monday.

Their forms had earlier been rejected after a college clerk misappropriated their examination fees.

The Board, the principal said, had provisionally accepted their examination forms.

Prof Salma said that the chairman of the BISE, Hyderabad, had consented to consider the matter sympathetically.

She said that the late fees and penalties may either be waived or the students would have to pay nominal fees, adding that the examination fees, which was around Rs750, had already been paid by the students.

The BISE, she said, charged Rs3,000 in penalties and late fees.

No fees had so far been deposited in this regard, she said, adding that the decision about the penalty would later be decided.

It was learnt that the college’s principal and other lecturers would contribute and pay the misappropriated amount of the enrolment fees of the 57 students, which amounted to around Rs20,000.

The district president of the Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association, Prof Mir Hassan Sarewal, has called for taking strict action against the clerk and demanded that misappropriated money should be recovered from his salary.