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YOUNG ASPIRATIONS BETRAYED!By Rajan Narayan
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YOUNG ASPIRATIONS BETRAYED!By Rajan Narayan

June 06- June 12, 2026, NEET EXAM June 5, 2026 , by

Crores of young people appeared for the CBSE, National Eligibility Test, for admission to medical colleges and many competitive exams, for government jobs conducted by the national testing agency. These exams are the bridge to hopes, aspirations and dreams of Generation Z. Cheating, forging, leaking and corruption have killed a million dreams. No wonder Generation Z is up in arms now…

NEET medical entrance exams papers have leaked twice in two years. Destroying the trust of over 25 lakh students across the country and of course their parents obsessed over their children becoming doctors. No accountability has been fixed. Forget about the health minister Dharmesh Pradhan, even the director general of the National Testing Agency has yet to resign and admit accountability for the disruption of the medical entrance exams. Some small time culprits such as paper setters in Pune and a politically linked family of doctors in Madhya Pradesh have been made scapegoats.
The systematic failure which created such large scale leaks has not been addressed. Questions worth 650 marks of the maximum of 750 were reportedly leaked. The health minister and BJP apologists are talking about the logistics of conducting a paper and ink exam across a 100 centers in the country. There is even talk about entrusting the transport to Indian Air Force planes and conducting the tests under army supervision.

NOT JUST MEDICAL EXAMS
IT is not just the medical entrance exams. The latest scams involve the Central Board of Secondary Education. The Central Board of Secondary Education is the apex body which conducts 10th and 12th standard exams in the Kendriya Vidyalayas which are directly controlled by the Central government. There was a paper leak in 2018 which involved over 20 lakh students. Since it was linked with flaws in the distribution system CBSE moved to encrypted digital distribution of question papers. It also entered into an agreement with Globarena Technologies (floated by an IT company in Hyderabad). The company which claimed to have specialized in large scale examination and digital evaluation was involved in several scams. In the intermediate exam in Telangana both the answer sheets and the questions got distorted. There were large scale allegations of and political interference. The company also has a dubious record in managing the examination systems in Nagpur University.
 Despite its records the new avatar of the company (COEMPT) was entrusted in handling the evaluation online of the CBSC answer papers in 2026. The company also claimed to offer online verification of the results. When students who got unexpectedly low marks opened the portal they found there were a lot of mistakes in the marking. Some students pointed out that they were awarded marks for two of the ten questions they had answered correctly. On the screen the answer papers appeared blurred as they had been badly scanned. Students have rejected the CBSC results which were released last week.
A 17-years-old student has exposed the vulnerabilities of the software installed by the discredited company. We would have thought that the education minister would have immediately sacked the agency. Instead he has been claiming that the appointment was done through a transparent process.

NTA has cancelled NEET (UG) 2026 conducted on May 3, and announced that the exam will be re-conducted on fresh dates to be notified soon. The decision comes after inputs reviewed with Central Agencies and a CBI inquiry has been ordered into the matter. No fresh registration will be required, and existing candidature and exam centres will be retained.

RAHUL GANDHI
 UNDERSTANDABLY, Rahul Gandhi has taken up the cause of the students and called it a breach of trust of the young people in the country. The founder of the Cockroach Party is planning to return from Boston to lead a mass agitation to demand the resignation of Dharmesh Pradhan as the education minister. The termination of the National Testing Agency which has screwed up over 900 exams since it was set up in 2017. Students have also asked for the sacking of the computer company handling the online marking of CBSE exams. Not just local media but the Guardian in the UK and the BBC have reported the collapse of the competitive exams for medicine and at the secondary school level in India.
It may be pointed out that there has never been any major leak in the entrance exams to the Indian Institute of Technology. Though the qualifying exam is conducted by National Testing Agency it is supervised by the directors of the IITs for very jealous guardians of the legacy of the merit of the IITs. There has been no leak in exams conducted by the Union Public Service Commission. This is the totally autonomous body created under the Constitution which takes care of all the recruitment to the Central Indian Administration Services like IFS, IAS, and IRS and other Central services.
The problem clearly arises in Central government institutions which are directly under the Education Ministry and the Central government controlled by Narendra Modi. Considering the BJP government has shown no integrity in awarding contracts to the Adanis and the Ambanis it is too much to expect ministers like Dharmesh Pradhan not to take kickbacks for handling NEET and CBSE exams. Leaks can happen in any system but in more mature democracies the minister in charge immediately resigns.
In China, which conducts a mega exam for its Mandarins, who form the top ruling bureaucracy, anyone suspected of malpractice can spend a lifetime in prison. Every country is proud of its examination process which is the gateway for social mobility for the young people.
In India, like in every other country, the competitive exams like NEET, IITJEE, CBSE exams controlled by the CBSE board, the UPSC exams controlled by the Union Public Services Commission, are more than just exams. These exams provide an equal opportunity to every young person in the country irrespective of his caste, community or most importantly economic status. The economically and socially weaker sections see the exams as offering huge windows of opportunity. This has been dramatized in every exam. The results of the joint entrance exams for the IITs have just been announced. The topper is the son of a petty hardware merchant in New Delhi. The top woman candidate whose family moved from Pune to Kota is the daughter of a lower division clerk in the government.
There have been inspiring stories of children of vegetable vendors, security guards, autoriksha drivers becoming IPS officers and district collectors by passing the UPSC exams. For a labor class family in a rural area a daughter qualifying for the MBBS is a lifetime change, a giant leap in status. No wonder Utube videos are full of children of the working class preparing feverishly for competitive exams.

NEET UG Row: SC cancels the grace marks awarded to 1,563 students, NTA promises re-test on June 23. These 1,563 students will be given the chance to re-take the exam. Recording the stand of the Union and the NTA, the court disposed of one petition which challenged the grant of grace marks. The court also issued notice on another petition which alleged paper-leak and recall of the NEET-UG 2024 results and conducting of a fresh exam over alleged paper-leak and other malpractices. These two petitions are posted on July 8

LACK OF INTEGRITY
IT is not true that all ink and paper exams leak because of the logistics of a Centralized exam system, in which question papers and answer papers have to be transported to all parts of the country where the papers themselves have to be printed in printing presses under high security. Everyone in the system from the paper setters to the supervisors and the paper correctors have to be people of great integrity. Admittedly the IIT model of computerized delivery of questions helps minimize if not eliminate the leaks. The questions are delivered to each examination center digitally just 10 minutes before the exam. But more importantly the IIT directors are fanatically dedicated to maintaining the integrity of the system. After all the IIT is the top Indian education brand on par with MIT and Harvard and the London School of Economics in the West. It is not a coincidence that Sundar Pichai CEO of Google and Nadella the CEO of Microsoft are both IIT alumni.
The problem with NEET and the CBSE is not technology. It is the lack of integrity of the people behind the exams. Surely the contract for online valuation and correction could have been given to the Tata Consultancy Services or Infosys, the internationally tested players. The National Health Service of the United Kingdom is handled by INFOSYS. The education institutions in the UK like Oxford and Cambridge hand over their digital work to Tata Consultancy Services.
India’s top consultancy firms have offered to handle both NEET and the CBSE exams. Instead for 30 pieces of silver the CBSE board on instructions of the Education Ministry handed over the contract to a discredited IT firm. The people at the top in the National Testing Agency and the CBSE are not professionals but IAS officers most of whom are innocent of digital technology. Whether it is information technology or artificial intelligence the problem is not the machines of the technology but the problem of the lack of integrity of the people behind the machines.
The youth have risen in revolt. Just as they did against corrupt systems in Nepal and Sri Lanka. It may be recalled that last year Sri Lanka elected a young Marxist leader propelled by the youth of the country. In Nepal a technologist and a rapper all of 38 years old swept away the corrupt political system. Sorry, Mr Chief Justice and Mr Prime Minister. The cockroaches will not tolerate it any longer.

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