Flawed part-I results Inquiry into BISE scandal begins
Anti-Corruption Establishment team begins probing officials in Rawalpindi.
RAWALPINDI:
After having fixed the Rawalpindi board’s Intermediate Part-I results fiasco, it is now time for authorities to fix the blame.
An Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) team visited the office of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) on Wednesday and interviewed different officials following an inquiry into widespread discrepancies in the annual Higher Secondary School Certificate part I (HSSC-I ) 2011 results, inside sources said.
Headed by ACE Rawalpindi Director Muhammad Khan Ranjah, the team comprising Deputy Director Raja Zaheer and Assistant Director Khalid Yamin visited the BISE offices on Sixth Road and interviewed different officials of the examination body to learn how mistakes were made and who was responsible for the errors, said an ACE official.
The inquiry team was constituted after the ACE Punjab director general took notice of irregularities in the online registration system initiated in the eight examination boards of the province.
The Rawalpindi chapter of ACE was directed to determine the role of BISE officers in the registration process and in the issuance of roll number slips that resulted in discrepancies in the students’ final results cards in October.
“The inquiry team has to fix the responsibility on those officials who committed mistakes that caused these enormous ambiguities in results, which forced students to carry out protests,” said the ACE official.
Estimates suggest that as many as 80,000 students were handed incorrect results for Rawalpindi BISE HSSC-I and the board has been rechecking answer sheets to minimise the faults.
A BISE official told The Express Tribune that the ACE inquiry team visited to check the bar code records that were given to the answer sheets by the BISE to ascertain where the mistakes were made.
BISE Chairperson Dr Muhammad Qasim said the inquiry team interviewed different officials of the examination body and that such inquiries were also being carried out in other boards in Punjab.
In response to a question, the chairperson said that the inquiry team did not seek any record on Wednesday and only interviewed a few officials.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 17th, 2011.
After having fixed the Rawalpindi board’s Intermediate Part-I results fiasco, it is now time for authorities to fix the blame.
An Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) team visited the office of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) on Wednesday and interviewed different officials following an inquiry into widespread discrepancies in the annual Higher Secondary School Certificate part I (HSSC-I ) 2011 results, inside sources said.
Headed by ACE Rawalpindi Director Muhammad Khan Ranjah, the team comprising Deputy Director Raja Zaheer and Assistant Director Khalid Yamin visited the BISE offices on Sixth Road and interviewed different officials of the examination body to learn how mistakes were made and who was responsible for the errors, said an ACE official.
The inquiry team was constituted after the ACE Punjab director general took notice of irregularities in the online registration system initiated in the eight examination boards of the province.
The Rawalpindi chapter of ACE was directed to determine the role of BISE officers in the registration process and in the issuance of roll number slips that resulted in discrepancies in the students’ final results cards in October.
“The inquiry team has to fix the responsibility on those officials who committed mistakes that caused these enormous ambiguities in results, which forced students to carry out protests,” said the ACE official.
Estimates suggest that as many as 80,000 students were handed incorrect results for Rawalpindi BISE HSSC-I and the board has been rechecking answer sheets to minimise the faults.
A BISE official told The Express Tribune that the ACE inquiry team visited to check the bar code records that were given to the answer sheets by the BISE to ascertain where the mistakes were made.
BISE Chairperson Dr Muhammad Qasim said the inquiry team interviewed different officials of the examination body and that such inquiries were also being carried out in other boards in Punjab.
In response to a question, the chairperson said that the inquiry team did not seek any record on Wednesday and only interviewed a few officials.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 17th, 2011.