Students' personal records: intermediate boards asked to rationalise correction rules

Provincial Ombudsman Abdur Rashid Khan has ordered the Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education (Bise) to rationalise rules of correction in the personal records of students and also reduce the fee fixed for this purpose.
The order came following a complaint by Altaf Ahmed from Sargodha who submitted that his son, Basit Altaf, had appeared in the Matriculation examinations in 2006 as a regular candidate.
In the admission form his father's name was inadvertently mentioned as Muhammad Altaf instead of Altaf Ahmed. The board told him that a civil court decree was required for the requisite change. In addition to this the applicant would have to deposit an amount of rupees 1,750 as fee for change of father's name in the Board's record.
The ombudsman said that in case a mistake is found in the date of birth of a student or his or her father's name the same should be rectified with the help of school record or birth record maintained by the municipal body concerned.