Supla, private schools announce boycott of supplementary exams for giving board charge to commissioners

Karachi: Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA) and All Sindh Private Schools and Colleges Association have jointly rejected the caretaker provincial government’s decision to hand over education boards of the province, including Karachi, to commissioners and called it a royal decree. has been declared synonymous with

Leaders of the association, Professor Manoor Abbas and Haider Ali, addressed an emergency press conference held at the Karachi Press Club on Tuesday afternoon.

SUPLA and private schools have said that the education boards are busy and have been entrusted with the affairs of the boards to the commissioners, if this decision is not withdrawn, neither SUPLA nor its teachers will conduct the supplementary exams, nor the first year examination. Copies will remain part of ongoing assessment and no examination centers will be allowed to be established in colleges. Sapla will observe Black Day by tying black armbands against the decision from Thursday.

The leaders said that the education minister is interested in specific educational institutions, Sindh Textbook Board and Ziauddin Board and its educational institutions. Instead of issuing promotion letters for lecturers, they are busy making government school teachers B.Ed. and M.Ed. from Ziauddin University.

He demanded the Caretaker Chief Minister Sindh Justice (R) Maqbool Baqir to immediately appoint the chairmen, moderators of examinations and secretaries in the education boards on merit through the search committee and given to the commissioner in other boards including Inter Board Karachi. The additional charge should be withdrawn. Meanwhile, education experts should be appointed as a stop-gate arrangement.

The leaders said that the elections are around the corner, during which they will take care of the day-to-day affairs and election arrangements or see the board where lakhs of students have to take the first supplementary and later the annual exams immediately. Enrollment and examination forms are to be submitted.

He said that if our commissioners are not able to handle the issues of price control including milk and vegetables in the city, then how will the education boards handle them.

Haider Ali, the leader of the Private Schools Association, said that the education boards of Sindh are already lagging behind, where the important decisions of the IBCC are not being implemented. He questioned that after the appointment of commissioners, transparent arrangement of assessment and examination of copies and timely release of results will be possible, this work belongs to teachers and professors. Each board has its own BOG, any of its members can be given charge of the board.

Both the leaders said that we can go to protest, symbolic strike and courts, so the authorities should withdraw this decision in the interest of the students of Sindh.

Haider Ali further said that the former chief minister of the People’s Party, Murad Ali Shah, handed over the control of the boards to the concerned minister Ismail Rahu, after which the boards were destroyed. An inquiry should be made from NAB.

He said that the management of the boards should be handed over from the provincial government back to the governor because the provincial government is so entangled in political matters that the boards cannot be run by them.