SWAT: The results of more than 0.5 million intermediate students have been delayed while the students who have passed Matriculation examinations are also facing difficulties in obtaining admission and other documents due to strike by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Boards Employees Coordination Council (KPBECC) across the province.
The KP Board Employees Coordination Council has announced the strike will continue until the government withdraws its decision regarding merger of seven educational boards of the province into the Peshawar Board.
Spokesperson for KPBECC Ali Gul told this scribe that the provincial government has decided to merge the seven educational boards of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa into Peshawar Board and establish a branch office in place of each board. “Neither we do not accept this decision under any circumstances, nor it is a good decision for the children”, he claimed.
He said that currently the number of matriculation students registered in all education boards of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is 750,000 while the number of inter students is around 500,000, which is increasing by 10 to 20% every year but unfortunately despite this fact, the provincial government has formed a committee for the establishment of the centralized board which is not in any way beneficial for the students.
This move of the government may cause severe problems for the staff while the future of many employees may also be at stake, he pointed out.
He made it clear that until the government withdraws its decision, their strike will continue. On the other hand, Shahan Yousafzai, a student who took the exam in the part-I, said that earlier Covid-19 had badly affected studies of the students and now results have been stopped due to the strike of the KPBECC.
The parents have also expressed serious reservations on this initiative of the provincial government and said that the government is trying to take the people back to the 1990s, in which we were forced to go to Peshawar board even for minor work and our work was not done even after many days. The parents said that the educational boards are directly subordinated to the Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and even if they are, abolishing the educational boards and converting them into branch offices will not bring anything but hardship to the people.
