Sheikhupura DCO, Lahore BISE chair told to investigate. PHOTO: NNI/FILE
The provincial ombudsman has managed to get roll number slips issued to 29 students of Government Girls High School Kot Mahmood a day before they were to appear for their matriculation exams, a press statement issued by the Punjab ombudsman said on Monday.
Provincial Ombudsman Javed Mahmood took notice of a complaint by 29 girls, students of Government Girls High School, Kot Mahmood in Sharqpur tehsil of Sheikhupura district. Their parents said that their children had submitted admission forms as regular students of Government Girls High School after paying the dues but had not been issued roll number slips.
They said that their children’s roll number slips had been blocked by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE). The students and the parents had requested the ombudsman to direct the BISE to issue the roll number slips so they could appear in their exams.
The ombudsman directed Ombudsman’s Secretary Mumtaz Zahid to probe the matter. The statement said: in view of the urgency and sensitivity of the matter, the secretary contacted the relevant authorities and directed them to solve the problem on priority. “We did not want them to lose out on an academic year.”
The ombudsman said that the students, who should have been busy studying for the upcoming examinations, had been forced to run from pillar to post just to get their roll number slips. “This has not only wasted students’ precious time which could have been spent preparing for exams, but has also caused them unnecessary stress and anxiety.”
The ombudsman ordered the Lahore Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) chairman and the Sheikhupura DCO to probe the matter separately and submit their reports to the ombudsman’s office in two weeks.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 22nd, 2016.
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