The board of intermediate and secondary education Multan conducted secondary school certificate (class-X) annual examination, 2011 on Saturday. The examination of class IX will begin from March 21. As many as 1,12,590 candidates are taking the examination at the 342 centres set up by the BISE in seven districts within its jurisdiction. BISE Chairman, Chaudhry Rasheed Ahmed stated this while speaking at a news conference at the board office Saturday.
He said the board has made all arrangements for the examination. It has set up a number of hub centres in different areas where candidates were issued roll number slips while the same were also dispatched to them at their postal addresses. Referring to the new online system of registration, he said it is a big facility, adding that candidates faced problems just because of lack of awareness.
He mentioned that special permission was granted to those candidates who could not receive their roll number slips and that he would be authorised to exercise his powers as first class magistrate. About the problem of candidates who did not have their roll number slips even on Saturday, he said that board offices would be open even on Sunday to facilitate all such candidates. He informed that only a few candidates took a minor subject's paper on Saturday.
Chaudhry Rasheed said the board had directed respective centre superintendents to allow candidates that had any mistake in their roll number slips to sit in examination, but ask them to get their roll numbers rectified from the board offices. The superintendents would send such candidates' answer books as "stray cases", he added.