Mismanagement' mars NTS test.

SHANGLA/LOWER DIR -- Many candidates could not appear in the written tests for education department posts in different cadres on Sunday due to failure of the National Testing Service (NTS) in arranging the centres at proper locations.

The candidates told mediapersons that despite the deputy commissioner's directives for change of test centres to facilitate the candidates, these were not changed.

Jamshid Ali Shah, who had applied for CT-IT post, said he had to go to Puran from Bisham travelling a distance of 80km but due to snow at Yakhtangay he could not attempt the test. 'Like me there are many other candidates who could not reach the test centres due to one reason or the other.'

Ayesha, a female candidate who had applied for two different posts, could appear in only one test, as the location of the other centre was at a distant place.

She said most of the girls also faced the same problem.

The candidates demanded of the government to take action against the NTS officials for mismanagement as Shangla was a mountainous district where going from one tehsil to the other took two to four hours.

Meanwhile, traffic on main Timergara-Chakdara Road, Timergara-Khall Road and Balambat-Munda Road in Lower Dir remained blocked due to the NTS written tests for recruitment of teachers at...