KARACHI: Sindh Education Minister Saeed Ghani said on Tuesday that exams of matriculation and intermediate in the province would be held in July and the decision regarding exams of the classes up to eight would be made within the next few days.

Speaking at a press conference at Bilawal House, he said the Sindh government had already decided to conduct exams from IX to XII classes across the province in July while other provinces had not made any such decision.

“All the decisions are made in the meetings of the steering committee in consultation with the experts and all stakeholders in the education department. We have already made this decision and in a day or two, the decision regarding examinations from class I to VIII would be made and announced,” he said.

To a question, he said that there was a shortage of teachers in Sindh and the government would recruit 37,000 teachers through a test by the Institute of Business Administration-Sukkur but there was some delay in the process due to prevailing Covid-19 situation.

He said that after the increase in coronavirus cases in the province, the government unwillingly made difficult decisions so that the spread of the virus could be contained.

“Now some political parties only want to score points on the back of traders to oppose the recent measures but they are actually not doing any service to people,” said Mr Ghani.

“We have already solved the problems through dialogue with traders. And we will do it again. There’s no crisis-like situation. And those who want to exploit this situation would not succeed,” he said.