No Charcha from Modi on this Pariksha as NEET Paper Leak Traumatises Students |
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On July 11, 1961, India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru while addressing a public meeting in Jabalpur flagged the necessity of conducting examinations of high quality and standards to ensure India’s progress and advancement. Therefore, he forcefully stated: “If we do not improve the standards and make the examination system more rigorous, we will become backward … What counts is ability and knowledge.”
Paper leaks an institutional failure
The Modi regime, which never misses an opportunity to blame Nehru for its poor governance record over the last 12 years, has very surprisingly avoided dragging his name into the issue of the various paper leaks that have taken place recently, including of the NEET-UG exam this year that was cancelled.
Lakhs of students who took the exam stand shattered and some of them died by suicide, leaving behind millions of families caught in a whirlwind of despair and hopelessness.
Only in 2024 had the NEET-UG paper leaked and none at the highest levels of the education ministry headed by Dharmedra Pradhan were held accountable. The Indian Express after interviewing over a dozen officials, National Testing Agency insiders and experts associated with the exam’s 2024, 2025 and 2026 iterations revealed “a broad internal consensus on an institutional failure that created conditions for the leak”.
It is shocking that Prime Minister Modi, who talks about Viksit Bharat at the drop of a hat and engages himself with young students before the onset of school exams in his much-advertised “Pariksha pe........