“What The Protest At Jantar Mantar Revealed About India’s Degree Glut”, Swarajya, July 27, 2026
“The Cockroach Janta Party has now called off its 36-day agitation at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, after the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. Now that the protest is over, it’s worth asking what it really achieved, and what deeper problems it leaves behind untouched.
When the CJP protest started there was widespread support for the agenda at least, if not the party itself. National Testing Agency had let lakhs of NEET UG aspirants down once again. This was not the NTA’s first failure either. Students who had spent years preparing, watched their effort devalued by administrative failure.
That the government moved with unusual speed in detecting the leak, cancelling and re-conducting the exam, ordering an investigation, arresting those responsible, and announcing a shift toward computer-based testing, was a good redressal but a lot of questions remained……..”
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