SWABI: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE), Mardan, has warned the senior examination staff, including principals and headmasters, to strictly discourage cheating in board examinations otherwise action would be taken against them.

The secondary school certificate (SSC) examinations under the BISE, Mardan, started on Wednesday. `We have been warned of departmental action if the monitoring bodies found cheating by students in our presence, said an invigilator.

Students told this correspondent after their first paper that there was no `concession` with them in the examination hall.

`Cheating is prohibited and we are deputed by the board for discouraging such unfair practices. This is in the interest of all students,` said a student while quoting the superintendent of his examination hall.

Educationists, meanwhile, praised the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government for taking firm stand against cheating in examinations.LHWS DEMANDS: Lady Health Workers (LHWs) here on Wednesday renewed their warning that they would boycott anti-polio vaccination campaign and all other health activities across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa if their demands were not accepted till Sunday.

They said that regularisation of service, increase in salary and provision of foolproof security were their main demands.

The LHWs and their leaders alleged that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government had adopted delaying tactics and failed to respond to their repeated demands. They said that regularisation of their services had been ordered by the apex court, but the government was yet to issue a notification in this regard.

When contacted, Saeeda Feroz, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa president of LHWs Association, said that their other demand was the reinstatement of 125 expelled LHWs.

`We want reinstatement of these workers because they had no other source of livelihood,` she said and confirmed that they would boycott all health-related activities if their demands were not accepted by March 15.