{"id":30305,"date":"2025-12-06T00:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T00:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=30305"},"modified":"2025-12-06T00:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T00:04:02","slug":"education-boards-operating-sans-key-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=30305","title":{"rendered":"Education boards operating sans key officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>All nine education boards in Punjab, including the Rawalpindi Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education have been operating without a chairman, controller of examinations, and board secretary for the past three years.<\/p>\n<p>The entire system is running on makeshift, ad-hoc arrangements that have pushed day-to-day affairs to the verge of collapse.<\/p>\n<p>The chairmen, controllers, and secretaries of the Rawalpindi, Lahore, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Multan, Bahawalpur, Dera Ghazi Khan, Sahiwal, and Sargodha boards completed their three-year tenures and were relieved of their duties.<\/p>\n<p>The Rawalpindi board has not even appointed an acting chairman and is currently being run by a junior officer, leading to an accumulation of unresolved issues.<\/p>\n<p>Most boards are being run through additional charges assigned to officers who often already hold one or two primary positions, leaving them with limited authority and creating administrative hurdles.<\/p>\n<p>Only the Sahiwal and Multan boards have one secretary each; all other boards are relying on junior officers to fill key roles temporarily.<\/p>\n<p>Board unions have repeatedly written to the authorities concerned, seeking permanent appointments to the posts of chairman, secretary, and controller of examinations.<\/p>\n<p>They have also staged protests, but without success.<\/p>\n<p>With the new academic year 2026 approaching and preparations for matric and intermediate annual examinations underway, the absence of key officers poses serious challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The Punjab Higher Education Commission, when contacted, confirmed that the issue is on record and that a decision has been made to appoint chairmen, secretaries, and controllers across all boards.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All nine education boards in Punjab, including the Rawalpindi Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education have been operating without a chairman, controller of examinations, and board secretary for the past three years. The entire system is running on makeshift, ad-hoc arrangements that have pushed day-to-day affairs to the verge of collapse. The chairmen, controllers, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}