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Action against education board employees
« on: February 23, 2010, 08:26:57 PM »
Action against education board employees
Lahore: The Punjab higher education department has served show-cause notices on around 85 employees of the eight education boards in the province, who are on strike demanding release of funds in compensation for the abolition of examination fee charged from matriculation students of public schools.

The board employees under the banner of Employees Federation Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education Punjab, are on strike for last 13 days demanding release of grant to the boards to meet the expenses of the forthcoming matriculation annual examination for 2010.

These employees held massive protest demonstrations, including on Lahore board premises.

Meanwhile, the higher education department has engaged staff including officials of different universities and schoolteachers, who had already worked as external tabulators, to conduct the examinations on time.

The protesters, however, claim that it was impossible to hold the matriculation examination as per schedule.

Punjab higher education secretary Ahad Khan Cheema said the universities and schools' staff had been sent to the boards, who would soon start dispatching roll number slips to the candidates. He claimed that examination centres were already identified and the staff was required to stamp serial numbers on answer-scripts. "Only packing and dispatch work is left in connection with the holding of the matriculation examination," he added.

Mr Cheema said the staff sent to boards would also hold training workshops for the superintendents and invigilators.

When contacted, BISE, Lahore, Employees Welfare Association president Chaudhry Muhammad Aslam Gujjar said the education department should realise that it was a misconception that staff from universities, colleges or schools could hold the matriculation examination, which he said was highly technical and sensitive job.

He said the board employees had expertise in checking candidates' eligibility, setting up examination centres, issue roll number slips, provide answer-sheets and above all printing of question-papers.

Gujjar said it was imperative to release grant to meet the forthcoming matriculation examination's expenses. He said some boards were so fund-starved that they would not be able to give salaries to their staff members. Dawn