Corruption plagues exam results

Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Sargodha employees allegedly pocketed thousands of rupees under the pretense of raising scores in matric and inter exams.

A formal inquiry was conducted by Sargodha Development Director Commissioner Office Muhammad Bilal against Malik Muhammad Sulaiman, Muhammad Ishaq and Mansoor Arshad Dogar for changing the grades of roll numbers 406258, 423685 and 439492.

During the investigation, students officially acknowledged that they paid as much as Rs500,000 to have their grades changed.

The inquiry report recommended the registration of a formal FIR so that police could conduct a thorough investigation and apprehend the suspects, but Controller of Examinations Riaz Qadir Bhatti has yet to file the FIR.

The investigation led to the formal suspension of system analyst Malik Muhammad Sulaiman and computer programmer Muhammad Ishaq.

However, a non-standard inquiry was conducted by senior computer programmer Jamshed Jafar Ali and assistant conduct controller Khalid Mehmood, who were both working in the same location and allegedly suppressed the matter by taking arbitrary consequences.

Furthermore, officials were made available for service. The primary investigation, carried out by Mohammad, was quashed without a ruling.

BISE Sargodha declared the results of Class IX on August 22. The Class IX result gazette was published where the results of thousands of students were tampered with. After several days, the result were thrown out.

Public and Social Circles Association of Teachers of Pakistan Central Vice President Younis Kaliar has demanded of the Punjab chief minister, the chief secretary of, Higher Education Department of Punjab secretary and Schools Education Department Secretary order the registration of an FIR against the officials accountable for this heinous act. Action should be taken against them under the PEDA Act 2006, and those guilty should be held accountable.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 15^th, 2023.