{
 "no": 37,
 "id": "case-37",
 "sk": 20260601,
 "year": 2026,
 "date": "2021 to 2026 (crisis peak 2026)",
 "cat": "Exam integrity",
 "sev": "red",
 "title": "The children the exam system killed",
 "stamp": "'No data', says the government",
 "human": {
  "v": "~<b>12 to 14</b> student deaths reported around the 2026 NEET leak and forced re-exam; scores more in prior years",
  "est": true
 },
 "cost": {
  "v": "A generation taught that a rigged system holds their lives cheap",
  "est": true
 },
 "what": "After the 2026 NEET leak, cancellation and a stressful forced re-examination, around a dozen students were reported to have died by suicide amid the anguish, part of a documented pattern of exam-linked student deaths over several years.",
 "dodge": "Asked in Parliament about student suicides in the coaching-and-exam pipeline, the government replied that it maintains no such data, the same refusal to count that it deployed on migrants and on the oxygen dead. A system that leaks papers, cancels exams and then cannot even be bothered to count the young lives lost is a system that has stopped caring who it breaks.",
 "ministers": [
  {
   "n": "Dharmendra Pradhan",
   "r": "Education Minister"
  },
  {
   "n": "Union Education Ministry",
   "r": "NTA and exam policy"
  }
 ],
 "pos": "The government says education is largely a state subject and that it has moved to ease exam pressure and add counselling.",
 "alt": "Count and publish the deaths, fix exam integrity and scheduling, fund real student mental-health support, and treat each loss as a failure of the state, not a statistic to avoid.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "13 reported deaths after leak (Outlook)",
   "url": "https://www.outlookindia.com/amp/story/national/13-reported-suicides-after-neet-paper-leak",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20260620005151/https://www.outlookindia.com/amp/story/national/13-reported-suicides-after-neet-paper-leak"
  },
  {
   "label": "Govt: 'no data' on student suicides",
   "url": "https://news.careers360.com/no-data-on-student-suicides-in-neet-coaching-centres-government-tells-lok-sabha/amp",
   "tier": 3
  }
 ],
 "estimates": {
  "deaths": 14
 },
 "caseUrl": "https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-37/"
}