Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 4: The J&K Board of Professional Entrance Examination (BOPEE) has maintained that it was promoting the merit and quality of admission in the Engineering institutes across the State.
Even as right to education can not be denied, but quality in the standards of education can not be compromised and mere appearing in the examination does not make a candidate eligible to participate in the counseling, said a BOPEE spokesman while contesting the suggestion of allowing all aspirants to get admission in view of vacant seats with the Engineering colleges here.
While elaborating, the spokesman further said that total number of seats in the Engineering colleges is 2588 and the Board has called more than five thousand candidates for counseling, which is more than twice the number. Cut off merit varies from year to year and an examination of one year can not compared with the examination of another year as there will be different cut off marks, the spokesman said and added that in 2017, the Board had completed the admission within the timeline fixed by the Supreme Court, which extended the last date for J&K because of the disturbed condition in Valley.
BOPEE contested the claims made by Rahul Gupta in an article published in the Excelsior and said that the author has misrepresented the facts.
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