It is a day in which millions of teens are watching the Supreme Court. The large-scale mess of the NEET medical entrance exam is finally getting the attention of the judges. The first test was conducted on May 3. Almost 23 lakh students sat down in exam halls spread across 551 Indian cities. Even the test takers had to establish 14 overseas test centres to cope with the volume of tests. It took these children many years to slog through thick textbooks. However, a few days later, talk began about leaked question papers. The hordes grew too loud to be ignored. However, the National Testing Agency had to call it quits. On May 12, the whole affair was canceled due to the allegations being too heavy to deny
he battle now has shifted to the nation’s Supreme Court. Medical organisations such as the Federation of All India Medical Association and United Doctors Front are enraged. They are not only demanding a clean re-test, June 21. They wish to totally dismantle the NTA. The petitioners state the agency is lacking in credibility and can’t be relied upon with respect to the future of young doctors. They hope the court can compel a change to a heavily monitored computer based testing system for all future tests. The Supreme Court, in fact, issued notices on this issue earlier this week. But even the Centre, the CBI and the testing body haven’t filed official reactions. This is a nightmare situation for the government. This is their second time, and if they fail again, the repercussions on the public will be beyond imagination
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The process of calling in the Military.Calling in the Military.
The government is extremely worried about more leaks. They’re down to their last straws. So desperate that they are considering moving the test papers with the military.
This is totally unprecedented. Typically, exam papers are mailed throughout the country via the regular postal system. They are deposited in local bank vaults. This involves dozens of civilian handlers coming in contact with the boxes before they ever arrive at an exam hall. Each and every handover is a break in security. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh just held a meeting in his residence to address this very issue. There he was in the presence of the Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. They were accompanied by the Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia and senior officers of the Indian Air Force and NTA’s Director General Abhishek Singh. They are in the process of developing a radical solution to transfer the new questions onto military transport aircraft
On the face of it, the reasoning is sound if you consider the calendar. The government is operating under an extremely tight schedule. They have just 38 days between canceling their old test and conducting the new one. In addition, the monsoon season is beginning. Commercial flights and truck transport to far off areas such as Lakshadweep in the flooded roads is a serious logistical problem. The Air Force can avoid the need to use civilian middlemen altogether, and it can ignore the weather. They are seeking a way to transfer the documents from the private printing facility, directly to secure drop-offs points that are not the regular bank locations, but rather new locations that are classified for secure storage. The government’s military transport plan is being kept under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal observation. He must give it his approval before the cargo planes even depart.
The Investigation Trail
As the politicians go about preparing for the next test, detectives are hunting down the killers of the last test. The Central Bureau of Investigation assumed the case from the Department of Higher Education, where it was a formal complaint in written form. They are traveling at an extremely high speed.
The agency deployed special investigation squads to several states at once. The police are breaking and entering homes and arresting people. So far, they have locked up 13 people. They had settled in a large spread of cities, such as Delhi, Gurugram, Jaipur, Pune, Latur and Ahilyanagar. Not just some out of control teachers taking snapshots of a test sheet. The CBI suspect it’s a well organised syndicate. The investigators say they’ve hit on the real source of the question paper leak. They are following students and parents’ money trail. Huge sums of cash were being paid for the answers to be obtained several hours before the exam began. Delhi court sent two of the accused straight to judicial custody for 14 days recently. The deeper the detectives go, the more the underground network looks ugly.
The Tragic Fallout and Regulation
The stress is on people on the ground and they are being broken. Pradeep Meghwal, a 22-year-old student, committed suicide in Sikar, Rajasthan, a few days ago. It’s been three years of his life that he has been preparing for this particular exam. His family said he was confident that he played superbly on May 3. Then, news of the cancellation came on TV. The thought of doing the entire grueling process all over again seemingly pushed him over the edge.
Rahul Gandhi visited Pradeep’s parents on Wednesday. The Congress chief was straight to the point with his remarks. He didn’t consider it to be a “simple suicide.” He posted this on social media and blamed it on a corrupt and broken system. He accused the ruling party of putting education of millions in the hands of a mafia system in place. The opposition believes that there is a huge weakness in the government’s approach to national exams. They’re bleeding it for any political leverage they can bleed.
