Words of Wisdom - Dr Subramanian Swamy

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Dr Subramanian Swamy - Words of wisdom

  1. Jun 7

    Dreams Shattered ! Exams Fiasco, Results Fiasco, Jobs Fiasco’ discussion with Dr Subramanian Swamy & Prof Arvind Chaturvedi

    1.    A single leak is a crime. A repeated leak is a system failure. After the 2024 NEET leak, the Radhakrishnan Committee gave roughly 95 fixes — about 60 short-term and 35 long-term — most of them reported as already implemented. Yet NEET-UG 2026 still had to be scrapped, with the Supreme Court itself observing that the agency had not learnt its lesson. When reform is announced but not delivered, the fault is no longer the question paper. It is accountability. 2.    Two failures, one diagnosis: a broken gate at entry and at exit. In a single fortnight we saw a paper leak at the entrance gate — NEET — and a marking fiasco at the exit gate — the CBSE Class-12 On-Screen Marking, where students say the scanned answer-sheets do not even match their own handwriting. Some 18.5 million CBSE students; over 80 lakh NTA candidates a year. This is not bad luck twice. It is one institutional weakness showing up at both ends of a child’s career. 3.    An exam is the price of a year of a young Indian’s life — and we are taxing it twice. A cancelled NEET, a re-test on 21 June, a disputed board result — each is lost time, lost fees, lost confidence, compounding. And this lands on a generation where graduate joblessness already runs above 13 percent — three to four times the national average of about 3 percent. We cannot also burden the young with doubt over whether the exam itself is honest. 4.    Accountability — yes. Scapegoating and demolition — no. Transferring the CBSE chairman and secretary is, at best, a first step, not a reform. A recent national poll found about two-thirds of citizens want the Education Minister to resign and six in ten want the NTA dismantled. Heads of institutions must answer — I say that plainly. But I will not be misunderstood: scrapping the testing agency overnight, with lakhs of candidates already in the pipeline, risks a larger vacuum than the one we are filling. Fix the architecture; do not merely change the nameplate or burn an effigy. 5.    Turn the outrage into engineering — the grievance is legitimate; the despair is not the answer. Equally, demanding accountability is not ‘anti-national.’ Genuine dissent and manufactured despair both exist; conflating them is its own danger.

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