Daily Times

Akbar Ayub Khan, provincial minister for elementary and secondary education has said that to completely eliminate corruption in the education department especially in boards, efforts are underway to digitalize the complete system and will be linking all the boards through the new system.

This he said while addressing at the prize distribution ceremony of Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education Abbottabad at BISE Auditorium on the other day after awarding medals and prizes securing top positions in the Annual result of Secondary ( Matric) and Higher Secondary School ( Inter) 2019 examinations.

He directed the board officials to establish liaison office of the Abbottabad board at Haripur, Mansehra and Battagram to facilitate students of the far-flung areas.\

Akbar Ayub said that PTI led government has given top priority to the education sector and different kind of schemes and projects are being initiated to ease the youth and students as our 60% population is youth and as per the vision of Imran Khan, our youth are our main asset and will bring a revolutionary change in the country and Pakistan will become an emerging economic power in the future and had decided to utilize the best ever abilities of our youth.

He stressed the quality education which is a golden tool for success and in the country through the scholarship program, 60,000 students are getting benefits from it. He added that under the new refined digital system, we are going to completely eliminate the culture of “Safarish” and cheating in the examinations and our new system will be based on merit.

The ceremony was largely attended by the students, parents of the students, teachers, chairman of Bannu Board; Mardan Board with high ranking officials of the education department attended the function. Chairman of Abbottabad board Prof Mukhtiar and Secretary Dr. Shaishta Irshad presented an annual report of the Abbottabad board. He announced a month’s salary to the3 BISE staff and employees as a bonus.