Shankar Lal Dhopra has been appointed chairman of the Haryana School Education Board (BSEH).
The official appointment order dated May 26 was approved by the Governor of Haryana and formally issued by Vijay Singh Dahiya (IAS), Principal Secretary of the School Education Department.
His appointment took effect immediately following the issuance of the official administrative directive and he has officially taken over the position from the outgoing board chief Pawan Kumar.
As the head of the BSEH headquartered in Bhiwani, his core mandate involves steering state board examinations and introducing measures to make the board’s administrative and testing operations more transparent, digitally integrated and effective.
Born in Bhiwani in 1961, Dhopra is a professional advocate who completed his early education locally before earning his LLB degree from Jaipur University.
He started his public life as a student leader at Vaish College and later served as the vice-president of the Janata Party Yuva Morcha. He officially joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 1988.
Over nearly four decades with the party, he has held several key organisational posts, including serving as a BJP mandal executive member, district secretary, state co-media chief, state general secretary of the BJP OBC Morcha and the BJP district president for Bhiwani.
