Elimination of cheating in exams: CS calls on parents, teachers and civil society to play role Top bureaucrat concerned about absence of the teachers and students from their respective schools and cla

Elimination of cheating in exams: CS calls on parents, teachers and civil society to play role Top bureaucrat concerned about absence of the teachers and students from their respective schools and classes

• February 13, 2015, 8:30 pm
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HQ City Report

QUETTA: Chief Secretary Balochistan, Saifullah Chattha has called on the parents, teachers and civil society to make the government’s initiatives for prevention of cheating and use of other unfair means in the examinations a great success playing their wholehearted role in it.
He was addressing the seminar on “say no to cheating in exam” and “good bye cheating”, which was organized by the Education Department, Government of Balochistan here at the auditorium of Balochistan Boy Scouts Association’s headquarter the other day.
The Chief Minister, Dr. Abdul Malik Baloch presided the seminar while it was attended by the Provincial Ministers, senior bureaucrats, police officers, besides the people belonging to different walks of the life, civil society, teachers, parents and students.
The Chief Secretary maintained that if we want to decorate our younger generation with the ornament of education enabling them to meet the future challenges of modern world, we have to purge the menace of cheating from the province.
He said that our youth are equally talented, what’s needed is to provide them an excellent environment to move ahead, which is joint responsibility of the government, teachers, parents and civil society.
The Chief Secretary also said that the nations who paid special attention towards education have progressed and made distinction in the world.
He expressed the government’s resolve to put an end to the cheating in the examinations saying that the government is committed to do so in order to bring improvement in state of education in the province.
For the purpose, we are having support of the Chief Minister and the members of the provincial cabinet, he mentioned adding that we are sure that the parents, teachers and the civil society would join hand with the government in its anti-cheating initiatives.
The Chief Secretary on the occasion also expressed his concern over absence of the teachers and students from their respective schools in the province. This situation led to the ghost schools in the province, he regretted further.
He said that we need to differentiate between the hard working students and those who cheat in the examinations.
He said that we are proud of the teachers, who are imparting education to the students sincerely. We would also not spare the teachers, who are committing negligence in their duties, he asserted.
Referring particularly to the examinations of Matriculation, the Chief Secretary asserted that cheating would not be tolerated in these examinations at all.
While the candidates would not be allowed to carry the mobile phones into the examination centers, there would also be a ban of entry of the unauthorized persons there under section 144, he said.
He also said that the administrative secretaries of the provincial government departments are being deployed to monitor the exams all over the province.
He said that the steps would also be taken for prevention of cheating in the examinations of Intermediate, Graduation and Post Graduation on the same pattern after the Matric exams.
He said that if we succeed in our efforts against cheating, the province would surely get its destination and due status, otherwise it would be our failure.
It may be mentioned here that a walk was also organized earlier in which the Chief Minister, provincial ministers and a large number of other people had also participated.