Srinagar: India’s northernmost state has done better than its southernmost counterpart.
A cow in Jammu and Kashmir state has received an admit card to write a professional examination scheduled for May 10.
A few days ago in Kerala, some students who had not even appeared for exams were found to have passed the Second School Leaving Certificate, giving much fodder for Netizens to ridicule India’s education system.
In Kashmir, a cow, brown indeed, has got the admit card issued in her name to write the exam.
The Board of Professional Entrance Examinations (BoPEE) issued the card in the name of Kachir Gaaw (Brown Cow) for the entrance examination for Diploma in Polytechnic. She is supposedly the daughter of Gura Dand (Red Bull). The cow was allotted a seat at Government Degree College Bemina for writing the examination.
The incident came to light after opposition National Conference spokesperson Junaid Azim Mattu uploaded a copy of the admit card on social networking site twitter.com. “The J&K Board of Professional Entrance Examinations issued this roll-number slip to a cow after due verification. I have both the Provisional Confirmation Page for applicant Ms ‘Kachir Gaw’ as well as details of payment she made to BOPEE,” Mattu wrote on his account.
Mattu claimed that the records about the admit card had been taken off the BOPEE site at the behest of the state government, the Deccan Chronicle reported.
However, after an informal heads-up was sent to the government, BOPEE was asked to take the record down from their website this morning. “(Education Minister) Mr. Naeem Akhtar @jkpdp has some explaining to do. New benchmark of progress in Education Sector under him – COWS getting roll no slips?” Mattu added.
Former Chief Minister and National Conference working president Omar Abdullah also commented on Mattu’s post saying “Brilliant. I wish Kachir Gaaw had turned up for the examination.”
Controller Examinations of BOPEE Farooq Ahmad Mir said there was not much the authorities could do to prevent people from playing such pranks. “All the applications are now made online. There is image recognition software which does not differentiate between a human face and an animal picture. Someone has played a prank,” Mir said.
Asked about his signature on the admit card issued to the cow, Mir said “I do not sign the admit cards in person. This is a system generated signature and comes by default,” he said. Mir, however, said BOPEE will file a complaint against the prankster. “We will track down the IP address of the person who has played this prank,” he added.