The Rawalpindi Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) has decided to directly monitor the annual matriculation examination, starting from March 4, through live CCTV surveillance of all 165 sensitive exam centres from the board's office.
Overall, CCTV cameras will be installed at all 396 exam centres to ensure transparency in the examinations. To ensure the integrity of the exams, the BISE chairman, the BISE secretary, the controller, the Rawalpindi commissioner and deputy commissioner, mobile squads, special squads, MNAs and ministers will conduct surprise raids and checks at the centres.
Additionally, under Section 144, DC Hassan Waqar Cheema has imposed a ban on students, teachers, non-teaching staff, and exam personnel bringing mobile phones to the exam centres.
Entry of all unauthorised persons within a 100-metre radius of the exam centres will also be prohibited. The possession of weapons and any form of cheating material, including notes, books, registers, summaries, and calculators, will also be strictly banned.
In accordance with the Punjab Chief Minister's directives, a focal person will also be appointed by the DC to ensure exam transparency. Police personnel will be deployed at each exam centre for additional security.
A spokesperson for the Rawalpindi BISE, Arslan Cheema, says this year's matriculation and intermediate exams will feature the strictest measures to ensure transparency.
The board has vowed to eliminate the "booti mafia completely," and any involvement in cheating will lead to arrests and legal action, he further says and adds live monitoring will take place at all the declared sensitive exam centres.
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