MUZAFFARGARH, May 9: The Punjab Education Commission has failed to deliver roll number slips to fifth grade students in the district. The fifth class exams will be held from May 18 but the district education department has not received any instruction about examination centres and roll number slips.
An official of the Education Department said on the condition of anonymity the PEC had sent them roll number slips that were full of errors. In many slips the names of students and their fathers were not correct.
The examination centre of a school had been fixed 80 kilometres from the school, the official said. The PEC will hold the exam through objective type questions.
The papers for marking will be sent to the PEC. Another Education Department official said the PEC had sent them 10,000 slips with mistakes and asked the Education Department to correct it in four days.
He said officials were busy day and night to correct the slips. Punjab Education Commission officials could not be contacted for comments.
KILLER SCHOOL OPENS: The Government Girls’ Primary School in Alipur Ghalwan, where four girls were killed on Thursday, has opened again and many aggrieving scenes were witnessed at the time of re-opening of the school. Girls and teachers wept for the deceased students who had died when the wall of the school collapsed.
The attendance was 100 percent as Education Executive District Officer Mehr Aslam Bhageela, National Logistic Cell chief Major Khalid and teachers had gone from door-to-door and convinced the parents to send their children to school.
Earlier, villagers had announced they would not send their children to the “killer” school.
Also, an enquiry team conducting probe into the death of four girls has sent the sample of construction material of the wall for lab testing to Lahore.
Syed Naveed Alam Shah, in charge of the District Monitoring Team, said he had received 50 applications from different schools since the Alipur school killings and these schools had informed him that they had abandoned their school buildings because the buildings could collapse any time.