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Jyoti Yadav is Assistant Editor with ThePrint. She is an award-winning journalist, known for her gender-sensitive reporting and ground-breaking features on rural India, transformative policies, and systemic injustices. She joined ThePrint in March 2019. Jyoti can be reached at jyoti.yadav@theprint.in
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.