he military is being used as a trust substitute to somehow restore the faith of the public. And the Prime Minister having to “personally monitor” undergraduate admissions to medical colleges can hardly be a sign of good governance
In the wake of the Neet-UG question paper leak, the State’s response has been astounding. The Union education minister has said that the help of the Indian Air Force will be sought for the secure transportation of examination question papers ahead of the re-exam on June 21. And the Supreme Court has been told that Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself is monitoring the Neet situation. The IAF, in addition to securing Indian airspace, will now also protect Indian examination space. The decision to induct the IAF not only shows the loss of faith in the civil administration by the public, but by the government itself. The military is being used as a trust substitute to somehow restore the faith of the public. And the Prime Minister having to “personally monitor” undergraduate admissions to medical colleges can hardly be a sign of good governance. It is in fact the opposite. For a government that swears by good governance, the institutional architecture should be healthy and the chain of responsibility self-executing. The Prime Minister should not even be bothered with these processes. This is what a competent education minister and professional bureaucracy should be handling. That the Prime Minister has to step in suggests that the system has failed so completely that only the highest office in the country can be trusted to manage it. Also Read – Anita Anand | The Romance And The Tragedy Of The Monsoon In India
his is not all. Nisarga Adhikary, a 19-year-old Class 12 student from West Bengal and hobbyist cybersecurity dabbler, breached the Central Board of Secondary Education’s On-Screen Marking (OSM) portal — used by examiners to assess scanned answer sheets on a computer — in less than an hour. He proved that the digital security is so poor that anyone can impersonate an examiner and change a student’s grades.