Governor directs Ombudsman secretariat to implement paper marking fee orders.

TOBA TEK SINGH -- Punjab Governor Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar has directed the Punjab Ombudsman secretariat secretary to take appropriate action to get implemented a decision made on May 31. In the decision, the Punjab governor had rejected an appeal of the Faisalabad Board of intermediate and secondary education(BISE) chairman against a decision of the Punjab ombudsman who had directed in his order issued in November,2018 to Faisalabad BISE chairman, not to decrease the rates of paper marking or other duties of teachers for board's examinations of matriculation and to make them payment against their services they rendered for annual matriculation examination of 2018 as it was fixed under circular No 10 issued by BISE on Nov 25 in 2016. A teacher of Toba Tek Singh Government High School Zafar Asif (who is also leader of Punjab teachers union of Toba chapter) had filed a petition before the ombudsman against Faisalabad BISE chairman's decision. He had taken the plea that when teachers performed duty for 2018 annual matriculation examination, BISE was bound to pay them rates according to notification of Nov 25,2016 but BISE issued a new notification...