India is sort of burning, with students on the streets for exam reforms.The problem started with the leakage of question paper for National Entrance and eligibility test for medical college( NEET) Government is on the back foot. The prime minster has come out, assured the students and their concern will be taken care of. Yes, it is true greedy cartels are exploiting the system. But, we are ignoring a big hidden moral failure in the whole issue.
However, It is very convenient to march through the streets pointing fingers at the state, but blaming the government alone is not enough to fix a rotting system. We love to demand absolute structural perfection from institutions while completely ignoring the mirror of reality. It is us, the public that fuel and maintain the corruption supply chain through a collective, desperate willingness to bypass merit at any cost.
Let’s be honest, even a un-breachable testing infrastructure cannot save an education system where parents and students are actively looking for illegal shortcuts. When families willingly treat leaked question papers as a premium commodity, they are not victims they are the core investors funding the black market. I wished, I could find at-least one banner conveying this fact too.Unfortunately, it can never happen.
True reform cannot happen through government orders alone. It requires a brutal confrontation with our own societal hypocrisy and a complete dismantling of the demand side of corruption.
Dr.S.Venkatesan MD 