Baqar wants textbooks available for students online

Sindh Caretaker Chief Minister Justice (retd) Maqbool Baqar has directed the provincial school education department to ensure that both hard and soft copies of textbooks are provided to students so that they may also study online.

“We are in a digital age where children prefer digital content over hard copies and carrying books around,” he said while speaking at the launch ceremony of the website of the Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education (BISE) Mirpurkhas at the CM House on Friday.

In a simple ceremony, the CM punched the key of the computer and launched the BISE Mirpurkhas website.

BISE Chairman Zulfiqar Shah briefed the CM about the key features of the website. He said it would offer an online enrolment facility, examination forms and roll number slips.

The website would also offer online affiliation facilities, real-time facilitation for students, online verification facility, online issuance of duplicate documents, online registration of examiners and supervisory staff, informative videos for students and teachers, online results of all examinations and correction forms.

Shah said the Mirpurkhas board was also offering an e-academy to facilitate students, especially in remote areas of Tharparkar district, for the first time in history.

The CM was told that the board had uploaded model papers of SSC and HSSC examinations on its website and also launched official social media to facilitate the students of remote areas of Tharparkar.

The BISE Mirpurkhas had also established an information desk to ensure the availability of timely information to students and other stakeholders of the board, the CM was told. Likewise, the board had also established a facilitation centre and complaint portal for quick redress of the grievances of students. Justice (retd) Baqar directed all educational boards to switch to online procedures, citing the time-consuming, labour-intensive, and error-prone nature of manual handling of documents.