A group of retired civil servants on Wednesday demanded that Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan should resign from his post on account of allegations of widespread mismanagement in the conduct of centralised competitive exams.
The demand came against the backdrop of controversies surrounding the cancellation of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test for medical admissions following allegations of a paper leak, and complaints about the Central Board of Secondary Education’s digital evaluation process for the Class 12 examination. The developments have sparked protests and calls from Opposition parties for Pradhan’s resignation.
The Constitutional Conduct Group on Wednesday expressed outrage over the “repeated, monumental failures in the conduct of national level examinations under the watch of the Union Ministry of Education”.
The group said that the “systemic collapses” had shattered the dreams and futures of millions of students and “severely eroded public trust in one of the most critical components of…democracy – the public education and merit system”.
Referring to the NEET-UG controversy, the group questioned why the National Testing Agency had been unable to rectify the recurring flaws in the examination process.
It added that “in its obsession with centralised testing and selection systems, the Union government has paid scant regard to the dictum that decentralised functioning distributes risks and eliminates the chances of catastrophic, universal failures”.
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