The Chairman Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Hyderabad Professor Dr Muhammad Memon has informed that the Secondary School Certificate part I and II exams will commence from March 27. He told a press conference at the BISE's office here on Sunday that some 137,746 students, which were around 7,500 more from the previous year, would appear in the exams which would conclude on April 9.
He apprised that the board had set up 232 examination centers in the 9 districts of Hyderabad division and one district of Nawabshah division. According to him, 66 examination centers including 14 in Benazirabad, 11 in Hyderabad and 7 each in Thatta, Jamshoro, Tando Allahyar and Dadu districts had been declared sensitive. The Chairman said that DIG Hyderabad region Javed Alam Odho had assigned duty of the focal person to a police official in each of the 10 districts. He added that Commissioner Hyderabad division Saeed Ahmed Mangnejo and the district administration would also assist the BISE to curb cheating and maintain law and order.The Chairman said the police would be deployed outside each center while at the sensitive centers additional deployment would be made.
Dr Memon claimed that the BISE Hyderabad was the first examination board in Sindh which was introducing the printing of center code on the question papers. He explained that if the paper was unlawfully released prior to the examination from any of the 232 centers the BISE would be able to identify that center.