{
 "no": 32,
 "id": "case-32",
 "sk": 20240505,
 "year": 2024,
 "date": "05 May 2024",
 "cat": "Exam integrity",
 "sev": "red",
 "title": "NEET / NTA 2024. The paper-leak collapse",
 "stamp": "DG sacked. Minister untouched.",
 "human": {
  "v": "~<b>2.4 million</b> (24 lakh) NEET candidates thrown into chaos; careers and a year on the line",
  "est": true
 },
 "cost": {
  "v": "Re-tests, coaching costs and lost time across a multi-thousand-crore exam economy",
  "est": true
 },
 "what": "India's medical entrance exam was hit by a paper leak traced to Bihar and a grace-marks fiasco that produced an impossible cluster of perfect scores, with the CBI arresting a leak network.",
 "dodge": "The NTA first branded the leak reports baseless, then the government sacked the agency's chief, formed a committee and passed an anti-cheating law, while the Education Minister carried no personal accountability at all. The fix did not hold, as 2026 would prove.",
 "ministers": [
  {
   "n": "Dharmendra Pradhan",
   "r": "Education Minister"
  }
 ],
 "pos": "The government cites the CBI probe, the sacked chief, a reform committee and a new anti-cheating Act.",
 "alt": "Own it at the top and rebuild the testing agency end to end, so 2.4 million futures do not hinge on a leaky trunk.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "The hole that wasn't plugged (ThePrint)",
   "url": "https://theprint.in/opinion/newsmaker-of-the-week/neet-paper-leak-came-from-a-hole-that-wasnt-plugged-in-2024-nta-is-ignoring-its-problems/2932680/",
   "tier": 2
  },
  {
   "label": "Probe so far (Outlook)",
   "url": "https://www.outlookindia.com/national/neet-ug-exam-2024-paper-leak-sanjeev-lutan-mukhiya-gang-bihar-jharkhand-oasis-school-cbi-probe",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20240731110457/https://www.outlookindia.com/national/neet-ug-exam-2024-paper-leak-sanjeev-lutan-mukhiya-gang-bihar-jharkhand-oasis-school-cbi-probe"
  }
 ],
 "caseUrl": "https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-32/"
}