KARACHI: Sindh Assembly committee, consisting of members from the provincial assembly, has assigned the inquiry into the low pass ratio in the first year of the Intermediate Board Karachi to the Vice Chancellor of NED University, Professor Dr Soroush Lodhi.

Dr Lodhi will investigate the matter and submit a report to the assembly committee by February 12. The decision was made in a meeting of the committee held on Wednesday, chaired by Sindh Education Minister Sardar Shah. Following last year’s precedent, the committee will again include Institute of Business Administration Karachi Director Dr Akbar Zaidi, Sindh Higher Education Commission Secretary Moen Siddiqi, and the Controller of NED. A notification for the formation of the committee will be issued soon. During the meeting, Board of Intermediate Education Karachi Chairman Professor Sharaf Ali Shah, informed the committee that a special board committee, composed of college professors, had assessed thousands of answer sheets and found no significant errors in the results.

According to the statement, Dr Lodhi reported that discrepancies were found between assessment and tabulation, and there were flaws in security arrangements that prevented access to computers. A fact-checking committee, led by Dr Lodhi, was given the mandate to investigate the assessment objections with the help of other boards.