Caretaker Chief Minister Justice (retd) Maqbool Baqar has directed the School Education and Literacy Department to ensure that both hard and soft copies of textbooks are provided to the students for online study.
"We are in a digital age where children prefer digital content over hard copies to easily access lessons wherever they go instead of carrying the load of heavy textbooks."
He was speaking at the launch ceremony of the website of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE), Mirpurkhas, at the CM House. Universities and Boards Secretary Noor Ahmad Samoo, BISE Chairman Mirpurkhas Zulfiqar Ali Shah, BISE Secretary Anisudddin, Controller of Examination Anwar Aleem and others also attended the ceremony. The CM pressed the computer key to launch the website.
Board chairman, briefing the CM about the key features of the website, said it would offer an online enrolment facility, enrolment cards, examination forms and roll number slips (admit cards).
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The website would offer various online facilities like online verification, duplicate documents, registration of examiners and supervisory staff, availability of informative videos for students and teachers, availability of online results of all examinations, and availability of correction forms.
The chairman said that his board was also offering an E-academy to facilitate the students, especially in remote areas of district Tharparkar first time in the history.
The CM was informed that in order to promote the co-curricular activities, the board has made model papers of SSC and HSC available on the website and also launched official social media platform to facilitate the students of far-flung areas of district Tharparkar.
The board has also established an information desk which ensures the availability of updated information on day to day basis for students and all stakeholders.
The CM was told that the board has established a facilitation centre (One-Window operation) and created a Complaint portal for quick redressal of grievances of students. It was pointed out that the demand for unnecessary documents from the students was waived.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 13th, 2024.
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