KARACHI, July 9: More than one thousand students were granted bogus admissions every year to the DJ Sindh Government Science College in the late 1990s.

This was revealed by a senior official of the Board of Intermediate Education, Karachi, on Wednesday.

“At that time, the DJ college used to announce 500 or 600 seats officially for admissions,” Prof Amjad Ali Syed said on Wednesday. “But invariably every year, over 2,000 students filled out the enrolment forms and over 2,000 took the board examinations.”

He told Dawn that the kind of admission scam, which had been unearthed in the Sindh Medical College recently was common in state-owned intermediate colleges during the 80s and 90s. However, after the implementation of the centralized admission policy, the number of bogus admissions had plummeted, he claimed.

In reply to a question, Prof Amjad Ali said that last year he had carried out investigations to find out if some undeserving students had been admitted to colleges. However, he admitted, “Despite our best efforts, not a single case could be revealed in this regard.”