Murad seeks parents' help in curbing menace of UFM in exams: SSC exams to commence on March 28

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said here that he will write an open letter to the parents whose children will be appearing in the forthcoming SSC and HSC annual examinations, requesting them to prevent their wards from using unfair means in the examinations. "This is our collective responsibility to stop our future generation from taking little and immediate benefit by causing huge loss to their future," he opined.
The chief minister stated this while presiding over a meeting held to evolve a strategy for taking measures against the use of unfair means in the forthcoming examinations. It was attended, among others, by provincial Education Minister Jam Mehtab Dahar, Chief Secretary Rizwan Memon, Principal Secretary Naveed Kamran Baloch, Secretary Education Aziz Uqaili, chairmen of all the educational boards and other officers concerned.
The chief minister said that this is not only the responsibility of the government, but the educational boards, examiners, invigilators and the parents are equally responsible and hence all of them are required to make a commitment that they won't allow anyone to use unfair means in the examinations.
At the outset, Murad Ali Shah warned that services of all those internal or external invigilators would be terminated if they were found guilty of permitting unfair means at their respective examination centres. Briefing the CM, Secretary University and Board Naveed Shaikh said that there are seven educational boards in Sindh, including Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education (BISE) Larkana, BISE Sukkur, BISE Shaheed Benazirabad, Board of Secondary Education (BSE) Karachi, Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) Karachi, BISE Hyderabad and BISE Mirpurkhas.
He said that the SSC examinations will begin on March 28 and end on April 8, 2017 across Sindh, while the HSC examinations will start from April 28 and end on May 15, 2017. He said that 685672 candidates would appear in the SSC Part-I and II examinations, whereas 504,907 candidates are enrolled/registered for the Intermediate Part-I and II examinations.
Divulging into details, he said that in all 330 centres have been set up for Class-IX and Class-X examination in Karachi, 227 in Hyderabad, 211 in Sukkur, 135 in Larkana and 128 in Mirpurkhas. Similarly, 112 centres have been set up for Class-XI & XII examinations in Karachi, 120 in Hyderabad, 110 in Sukkur, 91 in Larkana and six in Mirpurkhas.
The chief minister was also apprised that in the BIE, Karachi, 212427 students, including 99660 boys and 112767 girls would appear in the examination. Out of 212427 students, 1587 are private and 87480 regular candidates for Class-XI, while for Class-XII the private candidates would be 17204 and 91,868 regular candidates.
The board has set up 112 centres for the examinations to be conducted in the morning shift and 100 for the examinations to be held in the evening shift. In all 29 morning shift examination centres and 26 evening shift centres have been declared `sensitive'.