Faizan Wani
Srinagar, Apr 29: The Administrative Reforms, Inspections & Trainings department is mulling to seek administrative control of the Board of Professional Entrance Examinations (BOPEE), which is lying with the General Administration Department.
A record note of a meeting of the ARI & Trainings department reveals that the matter came up for discussion during its meeting held recently.
During the meeting, the department decided that after due deliberations on the matter, it shall raise the matter of shifting back administrative control of BOPEE with GAD and allocation of the Board’s budget with the Finance department.
“The chair was also informed that Board of Professional Entrance Examinations (BOPEE) is under the administrative control of ARI Trainings Department but in the past, an administrative secretary who was holding the charge of both General Administrative Department and ARI Trainings, shifting its working, allocation of budget, etc. from its parent department ARI & Trainings to GAD for convenience of working and the same arrangement has been continuing till date,” reads the record note of the meeting.
The Jammu and Kashmir Board of Professional Entrance Examinations Act was set-up in 2002 after the J&K legislature passed a bill for the same.
Before 1987, selections for medical and engineering courses in J&K were made by a designated government department in the civil secretariat as an additional item of its work. With an increase in the number of students appearing in entrance examinations, the government constituted a full–time examining body, Competent Authority Entrance Examinations in 1987. The purpose of creating a full-time examining body was to organize entrance tests in a more transparent and orderly manner based on the pattern followed in other States/UTs.
