Sources confirm that authorities have implemented unprecedented security measures for today's resit of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for medical aspirants in India. The move comes after allegations of a massive paper leak that rocked the examination system last month. Uncovered documents suggest that at least 1,200 candidates gained access to the question paper hours before the original exam.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is now probing a network of middlemen and coaching centres. Today, candidates face biometric verification, multiple frisking points, and a ban on any electronic devices within a 500-metre radius. Vigilance teams are stationed at every centre.
But the question remains: can these measures restore trust in a system that many argue is fundamentally broken? The examining body, the National Testing Agency (NTA), insists the leak was an isolated incident. However, whispers in the corridors of power suggest otherwise.
A junior minister in the Ministry of Health, speaking on condition of anonymity, told this reporter: 'The rot goes deep. This is not the first time. We have been covering up for years.
' The cost of these security arrangements is estimated at over Rs 50 crore, a sum that could have instead built 100 new schools. As the gates close and the pens come out, the real examination is not of the students' knowledge but of the system's integrity.
