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The controversies that come up from time to time regarding the country’s biggest and prestigious medical entrance examination i.e. NEET have once again raised deep question marks on the security of the country’s education system and examination system. The central investigating agencies probing this much talked about paper leak and rigging case have made a sensational revelation which has stunned everyone. The investigation has revealed that the experts who were trusted the most to maintain the sanctity of a sensitive examination like NEET, have betrayed the National Testing Agency (NTA) by breaking their oath of secrecy. In this serious case, the involvement of three such academicians and subject experts has been found who were entrusted with the confidential responsibility of preparing question papers of the examination, reviewing them or ensuring their security, but they kept the dignity of their position and confidentiality at stake and sold it to the mafias and solver gangs.
Gross violation of oath of secrecy and dignity of office
In the Indian examination system, the process of question paper preparation and maintaining secrecy is considered very strict and impenetrable, in which every expert participating has to take a strict oath of secrecy for life. But this new revelation of NEET paper leak has proved that when greed and corruption dominate human intentions, then the rules of even the biggest constitutional and autonomous institutions remain intact. These three experts, who have been arrested or come under investigation, broke the strict security protocols of NTA whose purpose was to protect the future of lakhs of innocent and brilliant students of the country. These experts passed on the outline of the question papers and confidential information to the brokers and organized criminals who extort huge sums of money from the parents of the students in the name of passing the competitive examinations. After the exposure of these snakes hidden within the NTA, now the question has started gaining momentum as to whether there is a need for a more stringent mechanism for appointments and background checks in the institutions involved in conducting examinations.
A deep conspiracy was hatched with the help of solver gang and mafia.
Digital evidence and call details collected by the investigating agencies have revealed that these three experts had played this entire game in a planned manner in collaboration with the paper leak syndicate and solver gang spread across the country. When the selection or printing of question papers was going on just before the conduct of the NEET exam, these people took advantage of their official access to leak top-secret questions or give out clues related to their pattern. In return for this, evidence has been found that illegal bribes worth crores of rupees and expensive gifts were given to them. These accused never thought that the consequences of their personal greed and betrayal would have to be borne by lakhs of honest and poor students across the country who prepare day and night for this difficult examination. When people holding such high positions work to tarnish this temple of education, then the public’s faith in the entire system begins to waver, and this is the reason why there is an atmosphere of anger in the entire country after this revelation.
Strong lessons for the credibility of the education system and the future.
The arrest of these three experts in the NEET paper leak case and the exposure of their exploits is a proof of how deeply the investigating agencies are working to get to the bottom of this racket. There is now a huge pressure on the Supreme Court of the country and the Ministry of Education to implement such technical and administrative reforms in the examination system in which the scope for human interference or corruption becomes almost zero. The demand for mandatory implementation of modern measures like biometric verification, AI-based monitoring and digital traceability of question papers is now gaining momentum. Students and their parents believe that the culprits who commit such treason and betrayal of education should be given such severe and exemplary punishment so that in future no officer or expert can muster the courage to play with the future of crores of youth of the country.