Over-centralisation is the root cause of examination chaos in India

By P.K.Balachandran Colombo, July 28 – The birth of the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) in India, its nation-wide agitation against the leakage of examination papers, and the eventual resignation of the Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, have made the Indian government set up a high- powered committee of experts to design a foolproof all-India examination system. But it is feared that the committee could climb up the wrong tree by only plugging loopholes in the existing system that had le

Jul 28, 2026