LAHORE: A high-level inquiry committee, probing into the alleged `wrong marking` of intermediate (part-1) examinations, has engaged a panel of professors of public colleges to evaluate the marking standard of the Lahore Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE), identify and rectify the errors/ mistakes (if any) and devise a strategy to improve the system.

Official sources say the team, headed by the additional chief secretary and consisted of the Chief Minister`s Inspection Team chairman and secretary and special secretary (higher education) and some others, held a meeting at the Lahore BISE headquarters on Monday with board of ficials.

Board officials briefed the com-mittee on the examination system, said an of ficial.

Af ter the briefing, the committee members reached a unanimous decision on engaging experts who must be not below the rank of assistant professor to reexamine the papers. The committee members also said the professors must be briefed at the BISE headquarters on Tuesday morning (today) by the higher education secretary and his staffaboutthe process.

`Soon after the brainstorming session to be conducted by the secretary, the experts will start examining the sheets,` the of ficial added.

Those professors will examine 15 per cent of the complainants` answer sheets. By afternoon, the experts would submit a joint observatory report to the committee members at the BISE head of fice.

He said if the experts found anysort of errors, mistakes in the marking, examiners would be taken to task. Similarly, if weaknesses were found in the quality of marking, the experts would also give some appropriate recommendations to the committee. After reports from experts, the committee will prepare its inquiry report for the chief minister.

The official said BISE teams had got answer sheets of complainants.

He said the selected experts had not checked answer sheets of intermediate exams for the last one year or so.

The recent intermediate results announced by BISEs, including the Lahore board, triggered off a wave of protests as candidates complaine d about marks.

COURT MOVED: The Lahore High Court has been requested to order a judicial inquiry into incorrect results of the intermediate examination for the current aca-demic year.

An intermediate student, Palwasha Khan, filed a writ petition through Advocate Ishtiaq Chaudhry and questioned the `gross negligence` of Lahore education board in preparation of incorrect results.

The petitioner stated that future of thousands of students had been put at stake due to inefficiency of the board as massive discrepancies and errors were found in examining the papers.

She said the students were being asked by their respective college administrations to pay Rs700 each for getting their attempted papers rechecked.

The petitioner pleaded that the situation needed a thorough probe through a judicial commission to fix the responsibility of the negligence on part of the authorities.