LARKANA: The Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association rejected implementation of `e.marking` system in annual examinations for Higher Secondary Certificate Part-I under the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Sukkur, and decided to boycott the exams starting from May 5.

The SPLA Sukkur region`s leaders said in a press statement issued here and in an interview with Dawn on Saturday that it was quite illogical to waive practical examinations of HSC Part-I.

Prof Malhar Sindhi, president of SPLA Sukkur region (including Larkana and Sukkur divisions), said the BISE Sukkur was the only board in the country that had decided not to conduct practical examinations though all other boards were conducting it.

The board was depriving studentsof scientific knowledge through its unwise, anti-students and anti-education policy, he said.

He said that recently the SPLA called on the chairman of BISE Sukkur after holding a marathon meeting and expressed their reservations over both the decisions but the chairman did not take their concerns into account.

He said the BISE Sukkur was set to conduct annual examinations (theory papers) of HSC Part-I under the new system of `e.marking` for which neither teachers were trained nor students were taught.

`Therefore, without prior preparations and information we (SPLA) reject this system of examination,` he said.

Time and again the SPLA had expressed reservations regarding implementation of the `e.marking` system without providing training to teachers and other preparations, said Mr Malhar, adding that they were not against the digitalization but withoutprior preparation the move would prove unproductive.

The SPLA intended to move Sindh High Court against the BISE Sukkur`s decision of not taking the practical examination of HSC Part-I, he said.

He said that the authority to bring in change in syllabus rested with the Board of Curriculum and not with the BISE Sukkur.

He alleged that the management of BISE Sukkur had compelled them to protest and threats were being issued to them of registration of cases.

The SPLA leaders Ghufranullah Balouch, Prof Amjad Jatoi, Prof Fida Hussain Mahar, Prof Sanwal Ghoto, Prof Akhtiar Kalhoro, Prof Mushtaq Phulpoto, Prof Adeel Liaquat Bhatti and others warned they would knock the court`s door if the BISE conducted examinations despite SPLA`s protest.

They alleged that BISE had not even cleared the outstanding dues of the teachers who had performed duties during last year`s examinations.