Multan commissioner given charge of PBCC

The post was previously held by Lahore BISE Chairman Prof Chaudhry Muhammad Ismail

LAHORE: Multan Commissioner Nadeem Irshad Kayani has been given the additional charge of Punjab Boards Committee of Chairmen (PBCC). A notification to this effect has been issued by the Punjab Services and General Administration Department.

Kayani took charge as the Multan division commissioner on June 22 as part of the bureaucratic reshuffle in the province. He was later given the additional charge of chairman of PBCC, a body that oversees all the boards of intermediate and secondary education (BISEs) of the province.

The PBCC chairman slot is held by a BISE chairman from any of the boards. However, as the post of the BISE Multan chairman, along with several other boards in Punjab, was vacant, the commissioner of the division was given additional charge to look after the affairs of BISE.

PBCC chairman post was previously held by BISE Lahore Chairman Prof Chaudhry Muhammad Ismail, who was replaced for the PBCC chairman position by the interim government in Punjab.

The Punjab Higher Education Department (HED) had been struggling to fill vacant positions of heads at several of the BISEs in Punjab and efforts to fill these posts before the end of the tenure of the government did not bear any fruit.



The department had re-advertised the vacant posts of BISEs chairmen at seven boards that included Bahawalpur, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Multan, Rawalpindi, Sahiwal and Sargodha. May 8 was set as the last date for receiving the applications.

Meanwhile, HED had tasked the divisional commissioners to look after the BISEs as no suitable candidates could be appointed as far back as 2016.

The department re-initiated the whole appointment process at the BISEs several times; however, it failed to appoint anyone at the seven boards.

The divisional commissioners had been heading Gujranwala, Sargodha and Sahiwal boards for over a year. At the same time, BISEs of Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Multan, and Bahawalpur were being headed by commissioners for around six months as a stopgap arrangement.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 30^th, 2018.