It’s just one incident of many exam leaking/selling scandals for life-changing access to elite education, but this one actually resulted in some measure of justice.
With youth unemployment at 9.9%, competition for any path to a better life is fierce.
Young people have committed suicide over having to take the exam again
The national exam problem appears to be endemic: According to this article, there have been 152 major exam leaks since 2014.
The leaks benefit those who can afford expensive elite “coaching centres” who are the financial incentive for the exam thefts, i.e. India’s wealthy and powerful.
very interesting to see that the article specifically mentions leaks since 2014. It was worst pre-2014 when the current opposition party was in power. Make me feel the article has a political agenda rather than stating the facts.
Source?
I got very confused about the reported time scale. “week-long protests”, quoting the minister with “10 days”. Pretty sure I’ve seen reporting on the cockroach movement and protests between two to six weeks ago.
Later in the article the timespan gets mixed up.
Sonam Wangchuk, the renowned Indian engineer and activist who had galvanised the movement as he went on a 26-day hunger strike, celebrated the “victory of democracy, straight from the streets”.
For weeks, the Modi government had ignored the CJP protesters, but as support grew into ahuge mass movement this week, the government agreed to have a dialogue.
The 2026 Delhi Jantar Mantar protests, also referred to as the Indian Gen Z protests[13][14] and the Cockroach protests,[15][16] were a series of demonstrations initiated on 6 June 2026 by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP),
If not for the former minister saying as much I wouldn’t really think you could attribute a change at the national level to a small group of thousands.
“Considering the situation that has arisen at Jantar Mantar and across the country, so that anti-national forces do not take advantage of this situation … I have sent my resignation letter to the prime minister,”
It’s not so different from professional exams in Canada/Untied States. Applicants with some wealth to put into a tutor are often more successful, while also requiring a not insignificant fee to write the exam, effectively gatekeeping professional colleges from the less well-off.
E: to clear up some confusion…there is a fee paid by the person taking/writing/being assessed by the exam. Apparently the meaning ‘to write’ an exam is not consistent, but I intended the Canadian/British English meaning.
requiring a not insignificant fee to write the exam
What does this mean?
I read it as it costs money to take the the exam. So in that sentence 1. pay tutor 2. pay for exam.
That was very inspiring, hope they’ll keep the fire burning and organize to fight corruption at all levels.
