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Jyoti Yadav is an Assistant Editor with ThePrint. She writes features on gender, youth, unemployment, rural and small-town India. She travelled extensively to cover the Covid wave, gender representation in lower judiciary and decades-old gang rape cases, etc. She has been awarded the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award 2020, IPI award, and UN Laadli Media award thrice for her gender sensitive reporting. She was also one of the finalists at the Young Thomson Foundation Award 2022. She can be reached at jyoti.yadav@theprint.in. Follow her on Twitter @jyotiyadaav
This is precisely the reason why the Union govt must not conduct centralised entrance tests for admission to UG courses in medicine (NEET-UG & PG) or general arts and science streams (CUET).
Bihar has mastered the art of paper leaks and every single paper gets leaked. This is the primary reason why Biharis corner most seats in UPSC examinations. Any national level exam, either for higher studies or employment, gives Bihar an unfair advantage over others. Paper leaks result in Biharis scoring more marks than others and gobbling up seats everywhere.
The Union govt must leave this responsibility to states. Of course, Bihar cannot leak a paper in tests conducted by Tamil Nadu officials, Delegating the authority to conduct entrance tests to the states will substantially lessen the impact of Bihar paper leak mafia.