SAHIWAL: Over 200 contract-based and daily-wage employees will get an additional one-month basic salary as a reward for efficiently conducting the matriculation and intermediate annual examination, 2022 held under the SahiwalBoardofIntermediate and Secondary Education (BISE).

The decision to give an additional salary to these employees was taken in the 45th meeting BISE Board of Governors (BoG) presided over by Commissioner Salwat Saeed, who holds additional charge of the board chairman.

Controller examinations Naveed Azmat told Dawn that Sahiwal BISE had been facing staff shortage at all levels because of not having its ownbuilding.

He says in most of the other BISEs of Punjab, one employee is handling around 2,500 admission forms, but in Sahiwal board a single employee has to handle 8,000 forms because of the staff shortage.

`Despite the handicap, we are meeting the deadlines and the results would be announced timely on Aug 31, he said.

The Sahiwal BISE was established in 2013 after the district was given the status of 10th division of Punjab, but since then the board has been functioning in different rented buildings. It is presently housed in the Government Graduate College.

The commissioner said that keeping in view the hard work put in by the board employees,the BoG approved the control1er`s proposal for an additional basic salary for them.

The BOG includes Prof Masood Faridi, Director Colleges, Dr Rabia Akhter, Board Secretary, Prof Dr Mumtaz, Principal, Dr Imtiaz Ahmed, Chairman, Law Department, University of Sahiwal.

DACOITY: Four dacoits took away Rs400,000 cash, five tola gold and five mobile phones from a house in a private housing society in Chichawatni city.

The owner, Manzoor said four armed dacoits forced their entry into his house when he was away, held women of the family hostage in a room and collected the cash, gold and phones and fled away.

Chichawatni city police are investigating the matter.