Inter-Board Committee of Chairmen to create central data repository.

ISLAMABAD -- The Inter Board Committee of Chairmen (IBCC) has decided to create a central repository of data of all the examination boards of the country and also digitise all manual data, said a statement.

The statement released by the IBCC said that in order to strengthen the automation system in Inter Board Committee of Chairmen, to ease and facilitate the attestation and equivalence process for general public, the IBCC management under the leading role of its Secretary/CEO Dr Ghulam Ali Mallah has taken certain concrete steps in line with policy directions of the minister for Federal Education and Professional Training Shafqat Mehmood.

These steps will also be a source to help improve the overall examination assessment system across the country. The Secretary/CEO Inter Board Committee of Chairmen and Executive Director National Information Technology Board (NITB) have formally agreed to set up an automation system initially in the secretariat of the IBCC at Islamabad, which will be referred over to all the stakeholders. In follow-up, a meeting of chairmen examining bodies was held on 15th January, 2021.

In the meeting, it was agreed to create a central repository of data of all the examination boards of Pakistan at IBCC Islamabad. The digitisation process will be...