LAHORE: The Information Technology (IT) consultant for Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) has been fired from his duties in the aftermath of the large number of errors in the intermediate results, Express 24/7 reported Monday.
The decision has been taken on the orders of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif.
(Read: Students on streets: Charged protests lead to cancellation of inter results)
The government had appointed Dr Majid Naeem last year for the installation of online system in all eight boards of Punjab.
According to sources, the Lahore Board administration has banned Dr Naeem from entering the office.
(Read: Examining the system: Still in search of proper results)
Dr Umar Saif has been appointed as the new IT consultant.
Earlier, the students alleged the new online system as the culprit behind discrepancies in their results.
While the provincial education minister admitted to flaws in the online system, he vowed to continue with it.
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We should outsource the development and installation of the online system to Indian IT companies -- at least it will work then.
This could have been the case of Garbage in Garbage Out, Some one should investigate, if the data was entered correclty. The results produced by a computer is what was entered in it. There are always some vultures in an organization who would do their best to fail the system. Knowing the level of corruption in BSIET and all the education boards in Pakistan, there are vested interests who cannot make same money anymore that they used to make by altering exam results and getting bribes, they will do whatever possible to malign the IT department, This should be investigated from both angles.
I would say this is the best step taken by shahbaz shareef in his entire career. Mr Umar saif is undoubtly one of the most competent person in whole pakistan. He is an MIT graduate, professor at lums and has his own software house. he is the most eligible for this position. you will see the change in weeks. you can see his profile at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar_Saif
Just so everybody knows who he is, Dr. Umar Saif is a professor at LUMS was named in the top 35 young innovators by MIT recently. He's widely known and well respected in IT circles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar_Saif
hahah being an IT professional i know at the end of the day its only IT guy who has to pay for that.
I would suggest Dr. Saif, a very notable computer scientist to resign immediately. CM Punjab only knows one thing, firing!
What were the credentials of the former consultant, and the new one?
If the head is decayed, how can the rest of the body function? Firing an low level consultant is too little. The Education Minister has to go.
incompetence.
right step, because he was main culprit but PML n is also hiring people on political reference, so shrife must resign.
Sacking the IT consultant ? Very typical of CM Punjab That's all he can come up with for a resolution, usually
Government should resign for appointing the wrong person in the first place.
why only the consultant? wasn't it some Director's, Chairman's or Minister's Job to make sure that the system is working properly?