OKARA, Jan 27: Up to 10,000 candidates of class five and eight have not received their roll number slips because of discrepancies in the Punjab Examination Commission (PEC) working. The PEC will hold class five and eight annual examinations from Feb 1 to 7 in Punjab.

About 100,000 candidates of both public and private schools will take the examinations in Okara at 230 examination centres.

The candidates may miss the exams.

Parents say schools had dispatched the admission forms of these students to the PEC office in September, 2012. Later, the PEC called the administrations of schools to confirm data on students in December, 2012, which the school administrations found flawed. The PEC authorities could not issue roll number slips to 10,000 candidates while those receiving the slips found them filled with wrong entries such as name, father’s name, date of birth and venue of examination centres.

The PEC has also allotted examination centres to candidates far from their home towns.

A class five candidate, Muhammad Saqib of Okara city will have to travel to village Jethpur, 60 kilomteres from the Okara city, to take the examination.