Admit card to write exam issued for cow in India-controlled Kashmir
Xinhua, May 4, 2015 Adjust font size:
An admit card has been issued by authorities - conducting entrance level exams for professional courses in Indian-controlled Kashmir - to a brown cow in its name to appear in an exam for becoming a junior engineer.
The Kachir Gaaw (brown cow), which is supposedly daughter of Gura Dand (Red Bull), has been allotted a proper roll number and seat to write paper for the exam appear at Government Degree College Bemina in Srinagar along with other aspirants.
The exam is scheduled to be held on May 10.
Image of cow instead of a human face is prominent on the admit card.
The blooper was highlighted by opposition pro-India National Conference to push the government on back foot and seek explanation from it.
Controller of the Board of Professional Entrance Examinations ( BOPEE), Farooq Ahmad Mir, said authorities could not prevent people from playing pranks.
"Applications are turned in online and the image recognition software does not differentiate between a human and an animal's picture," Mir said. "My signature on the admit card is a system generated one and I did not sign it in person."
A government spokesman said on Sunday that BOPEE is contemplating action against pranksters.
"An inquiry has been ordered to reach to the root cause of the incident so that the appropriate action, as warranted under law, is taken against the delinquents," the spokesman said. Endi