New Delhi : There is one sentence that the National Testing Agency (NTA) would probably like to become the official takeaway from the latest NEET controversy. On paper, it sounds like a strong defence. But the problem is that the government’s own version of events sounds very different. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan publicly admitted that “there was a breach in the chain of command” in the NEET paper leak case and said the government was taking responsibility for it.
After all, the “system” is not just a computer server sitting inside an office building, it (the system) includes every layer involved in conducting an exam of this scale. From printing, packaging, transportation, and custody, to invigilation, coordination, security and oversight. On the one hand, the Centre has acknowledged a breach serious enough to trigger national outrage, CBI investigations and arrests across states. On the other hand, the agency conducting the exam appears focused on establishing that the leak did not originate from its internal digital infrastructure.
A teenager who spends two years preparing for NEET does not care whether the leak happened during printing, transit or distribution. Parents who emptied savings accounts for coaching classes are not going to pause and say, “At least the breach was not from the server.” For them, the question is painfully simple – How did the paper get out? And if nobody can answer that convincingly, then the credibility damage remains exactly the same.
Multiple reports have also stated that leaked chemistry questions were allegedly circulated before the exam and sold across states as part of a larger racket under investigation. If the country’s premier investigative agency is treating the case as a genuine paper leak, complete with arrests, money trails and an alleged organised network, then the obvious question would be why is the NTA still framing the issue so narrowly?
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