The Modi Govt. stands exposed by its disastrous record on education. 12 years of blatant misrule and relentless propaganda have eaten away at the foundations of India’s education system. CBSE compromised, UGC destroyed, scientific temper diminished, NCERT Textbook coloured, VCs appointed by RSS, any student protests bulldozed, Rights of SC-ST-OBC-EWS-minority youth snatched, Unemployment at its peak and persistent cuts in education budget—is the story of India’s youth under BJP.

India used to export intelligence to the world. Our IITs and IIMs made global CEOs. But today, the entire world is witnessing how our Govt. cannot even conduct a board exam without corruption and loot. The BJP has put the future of India’s students on hold, leaving institutions weakened, standards compromised, and millions of young paying the price for years of deliberate neglect, propaganda, and extortion.

While PM Modi continued on a personal PR spree with “Pariksha Pe Charcha” and “Exam Warriors,” crores of young students and their parents suffer daily, even as BJP mints money through mafia and loot. Vyapam Scam was a pilot project of the BJP to destroy the future of the youth. Now, after the CBSE saga, the race to the bottom is complete. While Modi ji tells the nation to hydrate in his ‘Mann ki Baat’, the Gen-Z is thirsty for justice!

More than 9 crore students in 90 paper leaks, along with their parents, have been left to fend for themselves. Not even a single word of responsibility has been uttered by the Prime Minister. At the least, what the Pradhan Mantri can do is to immediately remove Mantri Pradhan.

Numerous Paper leaks... Exam Nature of failure Candidates affected NEET-UG-2016 question paper leak About 8 lakh candidates appeared NEET 2021 paper leak, cheating, impersonation, malpractice About 16.14 lakh registered candidates, around 15.3 lakh appeared.

NEET-UG 2024 paper leak, malpractice, grace-mark dispute About 23 lakh appeared

UGC-NET 2024 Integrity compromised; cancellation Large national cohort; exact count not stated in source

CSIR-NET 2024 Postponement amid system disruptions Not specified in retrieved source

NEET-PG 2024 Postponement amid system disruptions Not specified in retrieved source

CUET 2024 Result delays, administrative disruption Not specified in retrieved source

JEE Main 2025 Answer-key errors; questions withdrawn Not specified in retrieved source

NEET-UG 2026 Alleged leak, cancellation About 22–23 lakh appeared

CUET-UG 2026 Technical glitch, nationwide delay Thousands affected

BPSC / DSSSB / UPSC-linked exams 2026 Cancellations, postponements, administrative problems Not specified in retrieved source

LoP Shri Rahul Gandhi has been constantly speaking on behalf of the students, exposing the CBSE Saga. It is a crying shame that Union Ministers & BJP ecosystem are trying to hide their corrupt practices, by targeting 17-year-old students, calling them “Deep State Agents”, “Pakistanis” and “Working for Soros”.

1. CBSE ignored serious internal warnings before rolling out its digital evaluation system nationwide. A January 2026 dry run flagged 36 major concerns including risks of blind and superficial checking, weak moderation, lack of oversight and major technical failures. Teachers warned the system needed at least one to two more years of preparation. Yet CBSE rushed implementation within weeks.
2. The result has been chaos. Thousands of students received blurred, incomplete and unreadable answer sheet scans with missing pages, duplicate scans and even answer books belonging to other students. Over 68,000 answer books had to be rescanned, while more than 13,500 required manual evaluation after the digital system failed.
3. Evaluators also reported poor scan quality, distorted content and missing pages that made fair marking impossible. This is not reform. This is institutional negligence that has put the future of lakhs of students at risk.
4. CBSE’s May 2025 tender explicitly mandated robotic, high-speed scanning systems with spine-preserved handling of answer books and a minimum resolution of 300 DPI, setting clear standards to ensure accuracy, readability and integrity of evaluation. However, the August 2025 revision quietly diluted these safeguards by removing the requirement for robotic scanners, reducing specifications to generic “scanners” and lowering the minimum resolution to 200 DPI, a change that has now taken concrete form in reported field implementation where COEMPT is alleged to have used mobile-phone based scanning methods. The predictable outcome of this deliberate weakening of technical standards is now visible in the form of blurred answer sheets, missing pages and incomplete digitisation, raising serious questions about whether these were genuine operational failures or the direct consequence of a procurement design altered to suit a specific vendor rather than the requirements of a national examination system.
5. CBSE had to float three separate tenders before finding a vendor for the On-Screen Marking system, as the first tender reportedly received no bids and the second tender failed to produce a technically qualified bidder. The third and final tender was issued only in August 2025, leaving barely six months before nationwide implementation of OSM for 18.5 lakh Class 12 students, raising concerns that the project was being rushed despite its unprecedented scale.

a. Eligibility rules were quietly changed till COEMPT became eligible. b. Global software quality standard was diluted from CMMI Level 5 to Level 3. c. Scan quality was reduced from 300 DPI to 200 DPI risking unreadable answer sheets. d. Mandatory robotic high-speed scanners were dropped from tender conditions. e. Clauses on poor past performance, abandoned projects and financial weakness were removed. f. Blacklisting rules were diluted from previously blacklisted to currently blacklisted. g. Experience criteria were weakened to allow broader cumulative claims. h. Data centre ownership rules were relaxed for third party cloud use. i. Cybersecurity and vulnerability testing norms were reportedly diluted. j. Penalties shifted away from scan quality failures towards deadline management. k. This was not reform. Tender conditions were systematically weakened while students paid the price. 6. Student Ethical hackers were forced to expose shocking flaws, including master passwords in public code, weak authentication, open access vulnerabilities and unsecured systems handling lakhs of student records. 7. Researchers alleged that answer sheets, educational documents and even payment records containing phone numbers, emails and transaction details were left publicly accessible. 8. Instead of fixing the mess, CBSE coordinated a scripted defence campaign through schools and principals using identical talking points to suppress criticism. 9. COEMPT EduTek received the contract after tender rules were repeatedly diluted.Technical standards, cybersecurity norms and eligibility conditions were weakened step-by-step. 10. Reports and public allegations surrounding individuals linked to the Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s ecosystem have further intensified concerns over neutrality and accountability in awarding such critical contracts. 11. Nearly 18.5 lakh students were pushed into confusion, insecurity and distrust because institutions failed them.

From NEET and UGC NET to CUET and now CBSE, the Modi Govt. has turned India’s examination system into a symbol of chaos, leaks, manipulation and institutional collapse. This is no longer an isolated failure. It is a full-scale collapse of credibility in India’s education system under the Modi Govt.

1. The Modi Govt. hollowed out the UGC by slashing direct funding and forcing public universities into loan-driven financing through HEFA. Education is being pushed from public service to commercial survival.
2. RSS-BJP backed centralisation has steadily eroded university autonomy. Vice Chancellor appointments in institutions like JNU and DU are increasingly seen as politically controlled rather than academically independent.
3. Campuses are being turned into policing zones under the Modi Govt. From JNU to Jamia and AMU, student protests have been met with FIRs, detentions and heavy police crackdowns instead of democratic dialogue.
4. NCERT textbook cuts under the RSS BJP regime have removed critical chapters on Mughal history, the Emergency, Partition and political movements, triggering fears of ideological rewriting of education.
5. Nearly 90,000 Govt. schools have been shut, merged or rationalised since 2014, shrinking access to public education in rural India while enrolment continues to fall.
6. The Modi Govt. celebrates elite IIT placements while ignoring the national employability disaster. Less than half of India’s graduates are considered employable, exposing a massive education jobs disconnect.
7. Universities across India are crippled by massive faculty shortages. Teaching posts remain vacant for years while academic quality, research and student mentoring continue to collapse.
8. The BJP Govt. announced multiple new AIIMS institutes for headlines and publicity, but many still operate with incomplete infrastructure, severe faculty shortages and limited medical services.
9. Education expenditure has dropped from 4.77% (last year of UPA-2) to just 2.50% (Modi-3), representing a decline of nearly 50% in budget priority for education.
10. India is facing a full-scale learning crisis. National assessments show millions of children struggling with basic reading, maths and science despite years of schooling.
11. The Modi Govt. has failed India’s youth on jobs. Rising unemployment, shrinking manufacturing and exploding informal labour have pushed millions of young Indians into insecurity and underemployment. Our 5 direct questions that expose the Modi Govt.’s catastrophic failure on education and demand accountability –
12. Why did CBSE ignore internal warnings from teachers and experts about 36 major flaws in the digital evaluation system and recklessly impose it on 18.5 lakh students within weeks?
13. Who ordered the dilution of CBSE tender norms by reducing scan quality standards, removing mandatory robotic scanners and weakening cybersecurity safeguards before awarding the contract?
14. Why were technical eligibility rules repeatedly changed until a particular vendor became eligible, and what explains the alleged proximity between the contractor and individuals linked to the BJP ecosystem?
15. Why was it preferred over TCS, despite a shady track record, and a name change? Why was the CBSE OSM contract handed to COEMPT - a company already mired in controversy under its old name, Globarena? On whose orders was it done? Why were no background checks done? What is the connection between COEMPT’s management and the Modi government?
16. After destroying the credibility of exams from NEET and UGC NET to CUET and CBSE, hollowing out UGC funding, shutting schools and pushing India’s education system into chaos, will PM Modi finally fix accountability or continue shielding failure? Dharmendra Pradhan must resign immediately as Union Education Minister for presiding over one of the biggest institutional failures in India’s education history.

Based on the statement by Shri Pawan Khera, Chairman, Media & Publicity (Communications Dept), AICC on June 1, 2026