Students facing neglect at top education board
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
ISLAMABAD: The students turning towards the head office of the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education are suffering due to irresponsible behaviour of the administration; however the ‘agents’ are active on the other hand to ‘assist’ the these helpless students for money.
The FBISE administration is forcing the students to again verify their already verified degrees from their concerned educational boards and universities for attestations, which is affecting a large number of students from far-flung areas. Waqas Arif, student of BS (Hon) who came to visit FBISE from Gujrat, told The Spokesman that he completed his intermediate from Gujrat in 2006 and then verified his certificate from the concerned board on February 6, 2012 after paying Rs 3250 as fee. He said that he could not send his documents for the attestation immediately for some reasons, which has created an issue for him.
“FBISE staff totally refused my request and suggested me to again verify my certificates from the board after which they would be able to attest it because according to them, they have no records of the verified documents older than three months,” said Waqas. However, according to him, another official interfered during his discussion with the staff members, by telling him to stay at a side where a person will meet him who can resolve his issue.
“After waiting for some time, a person wearing uniform of a security guard met and offered me that my documents will be attested immediately if I pay him 2000, excluding the attestation fee which is Rs 400 only, but I refused his offer and he disappeared,” he added. Wasiq Abbasi, another student from district Bagh of Azad Kashmir, said that he was also visiting the office for attestation of his degree but was facing the same hurdles by the staff.
“The staff declined attestation of my degree by telling that they are considering only those documents for the attestation which are verified after 2010. Unfortunately, mine was verified in 2009,” he said. He said that he was also told by a staff member that if he can wait for some time, a person will meet him to resolve his issues, but no one has met him yet. Abdul Wahab was also visiting the FBISE office to attest the documents of his niece who is residing in England.
He said that he was told by the staff to bring an authority letter from the owner of the documents, which was not possible for him currently. He said that he requested the staff again to attest without the authority letter for which again he was told to wait at a place where a person will meet him for his assistance. “I am ready to pay any amount the person may ask for, just because I have already wasted three days in this process and today they revealed that I would be requiring an authority letter,” he said.
When contacted, Mohammad Iqbal Khankhel, deputy director at the Inter-Board Committee of Chairman, told The Spokesman that, “We are receiving hundreds of applications for documents attestation and equivalent certificates daily which forces us to replace the record with the latest one.” National Assembly’s Standing Committee for Education Chairman Sheikh Rohale Asghar said that, “if someone writes us about the issue within two days, we may consider it in the last meeting of the standing committee.”
The FBISE administration is forcing the students to again verify their already verified degrees from their concerned educational boards and universities for attestations, which is affecting a large number of students from far-flung areas. Waqas Arif, student of BS (Hon) who came to visit FBISE from Gujrat, told The Spokesman that he completed his intermediate from Gujrat in 2006 and then verified his certificate from the concerned board on February 6, 2012 after paying Rs 3250 as fee. He said that he could not send his documents for the attestation immediately for some reasons, which has created an issue for him.
“FBISE staff totally refused my request and suggested me to again verify my certificates from the board after which they would be able to attest it because according to them, they have no records of the verified documents older than three months,” said Waqas. However, according to him, another official interfered during his discussion with the staff members, by telling him to stay at a side where a person will meet him who can resolve his issue.
“After waiting for some time, a person wearing uniform of a security guard met and offered me that my documents will be attested immediately if I pay him 2000, excluding the attestation fee which is Rs 400 only, but I refused his offer and he disappeared,” he added. Wasiq Abbasi, another student from district Bagh of Azad Kashmir, said that he was also visiting the office for attestation of his degree but was facing the same hurdles by the staff.
“The staff declined attestation of my degree by telling that they are considering only those documents for the attestation which are verified after 2010. Unfortunately, mine was verified in 2009,” he said. He said that he was also told by a staff member that if he can wait for some time, a person will meet him to resolve his issues, but no one has met him yet. Abdul Wahab was also visiting the FBISE office to attest the documents of his niece who is residing in England.
He said that he was told by the staff to bring an authority letter from the owner of the documents, which was not possible for him currently. He said that he requested the staff again to attest without the authority letter for which again he was told to wait at a place where a person will meet him for his assistance. “I am ready to pay any amount the person may ask for, just because I have already wasted three days in this process and today they revealed that I would be requiring an authority letter,” he said.
When contacted, Mohammad Iqbal Khankhel, deputy director at the Inter-Board Committee of Chairman, told The Spokesman that, “We are receiving hundreds of applications for documents attestation and equivalent certificates daily which forces us to replace the record with the latest one.” National Assembly’s Standing Committee for Education Chairman Sheikh Rohale Asghar said that, “if someone writes us about the issue within two days, we may consider it in the last meeting of the standing committee.”
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