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OPINION: On the 2nd of May, Agriculture Minister Todd McClay announced that the 'government remains on track to ban full farm-to-forestry conversion'.
Imagine a cow aspiring to be an engineer. It’s possible in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, as the state’s board of professional entrance examination (BOPEE) made history of sorts by issuing an admission card to a cow for a state `diploma in polytechnic’ test.
For the record, she is not an ordinary cow. Her name is Kachir Gaw (blonde cow), daughter of Gura Dand (big bull). She has to appear for the entrance test to be held at Government Degree College Bemina, Srinagar, on May 10.
This year the admission form for the entrance test was to be submitted online. And one of the applicants was Kachir Gaw. Surprisingly nobody bothered to verify the credentials, even though the applicant had also uploaded the picture of a cow on the form. Worse, the authorities issued the admission card also with a picture of the cow.
Red-faced by the goof-up, BOPEE is trying to track down the “man or woman” who played this mischief.
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