New Delhi: Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Shri Rahul Gandhi on July 22, 2024, said that there was a systemic collapse of examination system in the country. He asked the government to spell out what it was “doing to fix the issue at a systemic level”?

Raising the issue in the Lok Sabha on the first day of the Monsoon Session, Shri Rahul Gandhi said, “Millions of people believe that if you’re rich, you can buy the Indian examination system, and this is the same feeling we as the Opposition have”.

The Leader of the Opposition said - There are millions of students in this country who are extremely concerned about what is going on and who are convinced that the Indian examination system is a fraud.

He said -It was quite obvious to the whole country that there is a very serious problem with our examination system. “This is not just the question of the NEET but major examinations”, he observed, while remarking, “the minister has blamed everybody except himself”. He observed, the minister did not understand the fundamentals of what was going on there.
Later talking to reporters, Shri Rahul Gandhi asserted that the minister must respond. But, he said, the minister was talking about the Supreme Court and the Prime Minister but not what he was doing about it.

He said - Since it was a very important issue concerning the youth of the country, the opposition had wanted a discussion on it, but the government did not seem to be interested. Later Shri Rahul Gandhi wrote on X (Twitter), saying, “The Education Minister, far removed from India’s ground reality, claims there have been no paper leaks in the last 7 years”. “The unfortunate truth is that the Indian examination system is up for sale to the rich, causing millions of students to suffer”, he added, while maintaining that the “issue is systemic and should be addressed with sincerity, rather than resorting to political spin laden with lies”.