I want to draw your attention towards a very serious issue. It is well known that public school teachers have far more responsibilities as compared to their counterparts in the private sector. Many.
THIS year, the Punjab government has introduced a new kind of assessment, known as school-based assessment (SBA), announcing that no student will be promoted without passing the exam.
For this purpose, a special website has been designed and an item bank is provided by the Punjab Examination Commission (PEC) to all public schools.
The schools have been asked to generate papers for Grade I to VIII from this website by using log-in IDs given to them by the PEC information technology team.
This surely is an appreciable step taken by the government. Things seem perfect till here, right?
But the problem is that somehow papers of all subjects have reached bookshops having photocopiers, and their owners are now minting money by selling these question papers to students.