Srinagar, Feb 28: The Search Committee set up by the government for appointment of Chairman JKBOSE and Director SCERT will hold an interaction with fourteen shortlisted candidates on March 5 to choose suitable chiefs for these to educational bodies.
A notice issued by the J&K School Education Department in this regard, read: “The meeting of the Search Committee headed by the Additional Chief Secretary Higher Education Department was held on February 17 and the candidates were shortlisted for their interaction.”
As per the notice, the candidates shortlisted for the post of Chairman JKBOSE and the post of Director JK State Council of Educational Research and trainings (SCERT) include Principal Islamia College of Science and Commerce Srinagar Prof. Munshi Tehmina Yousuf; Principal GDC Basoli Dr. Sunil Gupta; Joint Registrar University of Jammu Raj Kumar; Dean Academic Affairs Cluster University of Jammu Dr. Satinder Kour; Principal HED Dr. Manisha Kohli; Dean and Head School Education Central University of Kashmir Syed Zahoor Ahmad Geelani; Deputy Registrar IUST, Dr Shenaz Iqbal Qureshi; Principal GDC Samba Dr. Twinkle Suri; Coordinator and HoD Persian at Kashmir University Jahangir Iqbal Tantray; Additional Commissioner in Divisional Commissioner Office Kashmir Abid Hussain; and Joint Director JKSCERT Sindu Kapoor.
Besides, Finance Officer University of Jammu Dr Jatinder Khajuria and Joint Secretary JKBOSE Dr Sudhir Singh have been shortlisted for the post of Chairman JKBOSE.
“The shortlisted applicants are hereby informed to appear before the search committee for interaction on March 5 of 2025 at 12 noon in the committee meeting room, 3rd floor main building civil secretariat Jammu,” the official document reads.
Pertinently, the J&K Government had in December last year reconstituted a search committee for recommending the panel of the candidates for the appointment as Chairman JKBOSE and the Director J&K SCERT.
The committee is headed by Administrative Secretary Agricultural Production Department as its chairman while the Administrative Secretary of School Education Department (SED), GAD and Higher Education Department (HED) will be the members of the committee.
The other two members of the search committee are Vice Chancellor University of Kashmir (KU) and Vice Chancellor University of Jammu (JU).
The two-year term of incumbent Chairman JKBOSE expired on January 25 of 2025. However, the government on February 5 of 2025 extended his term for one month, which expired on February 24 of 2025.
Currently, JKBOSE is headless at a crucial time when the JKBOSE annual examinations of class 10th to 12th are going on across J&K. The academic session is also in the transition phase as the schools are scheduled to reopen from March 7 of 2025 but the schools have not received 100 percent supply of textbooks.
