Srinagar: One of the many candidates for next week’s polytechnic entrance exams in Jammu and Kashmir, one has made news already. Ms Kachir Gow might not be a prodigy, but she is unique. Kachir Gow is a brown cow. And her owner Abdul Rashid says come what may, he would take her to exam hall on May 10.
Kachir Gow – the words literally mean “brown cow” — has got a bonafide admit card. Ms Gow, Rashid said, will go to the exam hall with the admit card hanging around her neck. “All of you are invited to see that,” he said.
Rashid, it appeared, is determined to teach someone a lesson.
The idea, he said, was to expose the loopholes in the online registration system of the Jammu and Kashmir Board of Professional Entrance Examination.
“I filled in a form in the name of ‘Kachir Gow’,” said Rashid. In place of thumb impression, he used her hoof print and her “tail print” “for signature”, he added. And despite the candidate’s name being a dead giveaway, the form was approved and the admit card duly arrived.
Abdul Rashid’s brown cow prank has left the state’s education ministry red-faced.
“I am surprised and shocked by this. If this has indeed passed through the system… it has to be verified… It is a disturbing matter,” said Education minister Nayeem Akhtar. An inquiry has already been ordered.
The opposition parties are having a field day. Former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah tweeted, “Brilliant. I wish Kachir Gaaw had turned up for the examination.”
