4,000 without roll-no slip, miss first exam

SIALKOT: Four thousand students could not sit for their first exam on Monday of the ongoing Middle Standard examination in Sialkot district because Gujranwala’s Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) failed to issue their roll number slips.

A total of 50,000 students had registered for the exams in Sialkot. These belonged to Sialkot, Daska, Sambrial, Uggoki , Badiana, Chawinda  and Pasrur areas. They would take the examination in 200 examination centres set up by the Gujranwala BISE. Education Department officials told PPI that these students had not been issued original slips. He said Education Department had issued temporary slips but the staff at the examination centres did not accept those slips. Several parents of affected students criticised the BISE officials for their ‘negligence’. They demanded that the BISE must take action against the officials who caused the situation.

They said the education board should reschedule the exam missed by the students.

Several examination centres remained flooded with rain water throughout the first day of middle standard exams. There were no arrangements to drain the water.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 8^th, 2011.