Jeremy Bentham has nothing to do with the medical entrance examinations in India. Certainly, there is nothing to do with the eighteenth-century philosopher Bentham’s Panopticon technique. This method was a psychological warfare of the last century. According to this method, the authorities can keep everyone under surveillance without looking at anyone. In ancient France, circular arches were based on Bentham’s architecture. The architecture of surveillance from the middle pillar is, of course, now outdated. But nowadays, the Panopticon has become a weapon of psychological warfare.
The situation seems to be that Panopticon is also used in the entrance examination for medical courses. Removing the rings and searching the underwear of the candidates is only an outer covering to cover the internal holes of the system.
On 3rd May, the markets were closed. Out of 2.2 million NEET aspirants, more than 46,000 were from Assam. The police were busy. NEET was a year-old penance of those aspirants. The administration spent crores of rupees to conduct entrance examinations for medical courses. Closed markets and shops lost huge amounts of money. The result was that the question papers were leaked, and the examination got canceled.
The main issue is fraud in the name of impenetrable security systems. It is a mind game to harass the candidate before entering the examination hall without closing the hole at the source. The father of this particular psychological game is Jeremy Bentham. Based on this 350-year-old philosophy, Bentham played mind games with hundreds of prisoners in a prison. What is happening every year in the name of NEET cannot be covered up as just an irregularity. In fact, this is systematic degradation. There is a lot of hypocrisy in the name of protecting talent, which has repeatedly demonstrated the crisis of intellectual ethics.
Note that such fraud has increased during Modi’s rule. The Prime Minister talks about preventing the decline of morality through Indianization of educational culture, while the door remains open for fraud. The 2021 railway department junior assistant post question paper was leaked. In that same year, C-TET and Indian Army GD CEE examination papers were also leaked. NEET, the Central GSS Head Clerk in Gujarat, the HSC Gram Secretary in Haryana, the Haryana Police Male Constable, First Division Assistant in the Karnataka Public Service Commission, Sub-Inspector of Police in the same state, Maharashtra Public Health Department Division (III-IV), MHADA Recruitment Examination in Maharashtra a long list of paper leak incident happened. The question papers of the Sub-Inspector of Rajasthan Public Service Commission and the Teacher Eligibility Test in Rajasthan, TET in Uttar Pradesh and Graduate Level Teacher Eligibility Test in Uttarakhand were leaked.
The list of paper leaks in 2022 is getting longer. That time, question papers for the Assistant Engineer Recruitment Examination in Arunachal Pradesh, the Police Constable Examination in Himachal Pradesh, the Junior Office Assistant IT Examination in the same state and the Sub-Inspector Recruitment Examination in Jammu and Kashmir Police were leaked. The question papers of Jammu and Kashmir Junior Engineer Recruitment Examination, Karnataka Assistant Professor Recruitment Examination, Rajasthan Police Constable Recruitment Examination, Senior Teacher Grade 2 Examination in the same state, School Lecturer Agricultural Science Examination in Rajasthan and Telangana Public Service Commission Primary Examination were also leaked.
The following year, the papers of the C-TET General Science Examination held in Assam were leaked. The authorities failed to keep the MIL paper of the matriculation examination. A few days later, Bihar Police Constable Recruitment Examination, Gujarat Junior Clerk Examination, Haryana Veterinary Surgeon Examination, Madhya Pradesh NSM Contractual Staff Nurse Examination, Orissa Public Service Commission Junior Engineer (Civil) Main Examination, Telangana Assistant Engineer Examination, Accounts Officer Examination of the same province followed the same way. The question papers of the Patwari-Lekhpal examination in Uttarakhand were seized in advance by a gang of miscreants.
The following year, more terrible things happened. C-TET papers leaked. Then the CUET papers were leaked from the Kanpur centre. Authorities couldn’t stop the leaking of NEET and UGC-NET question papers. The papers of the Teacher Recruitment Examination in Bihar, the CGL post examination in Jharkhand Public Service Commission, the Police Constable Recruitment Examination in Uttar Pradesh and finally the preliminary examination papers of the Public Service Commission in the same state were also leaked.
East Central Railway recruitment exam papers leaked for the first time in 2025. Science papers of Matric were traded in Jharkhand too. The authorities could not keep the special O-TET papers in Orissa properly. In the same year, the Orissa Police Sub-Inspector Recruitment Examination, the ANM Midwifery Paper-V examination in Orissa and finally the Uttarakhand Public Service Commission paper were also leaked. In 2026, paper leaks started with NEET.
The thing is that the National Testing Agency has nothing else to do then hold an examination. Earlier, the CBSE and UGC were responsible for the most difficult examinations in the country. Currently, that is the responsibility of the NTA. Like the NTA, earlier SEBA had failed to conduct matriculation examinations. That’s the path the National Testing Agency is following. Even the leading scholars of the NTA have no power to prevent the systematic decline of morality.
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