Balochistan exam rescheduled, investigation under way
QUETTA, March 12: The Balochistan education department has rescheduled the annual matriculation examination after English and some other papers were leaked out on Thursday night.
“After initial inquiry we have decided to reschedule the date sheet for the exam, which will now commence on March 29,” Balochistan Education Minister Tahir Mehmood announced at a press conference here on Friday.
Provincial Education Secretary Tahir Munir Minhas was present.
The minister said the decision had been taken at meeting held to review the situation. It decided to formulate new papers of all subjects.
Mr Mehmood said that a committee, headed by the additional secretary of education Noorul Haq Baloch, was investigating the leakage of papers.
He said that after the printing of question papers at the secrecy branch of the Balochistan Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education the sealed papers were sent to superintendents of 79 examination centres through banks. He said the inquiry committee had asked the superintendents to send back the papers which had been cancelled.
“The papers found unsealed will identify the centre from where the papers were leaked out. Banks’ staff will also be questioned.”
Mr Mehmood said that if officials of the education department and the board were found involved in the leakage scandal, they would be punished.
He said the meeting had decided that in future sealed papers would be opened in the presence of a representative of the local administration.
The minister said that a commission comprising senior retired educationists would be set up to suggest ways of making the examination system and paper checking process transparent.
In reply to question, the minister said that findings of the inquiry committee would be made public before the start of the exam.
Source Dawn
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