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Respected Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji,
I write with a specific, actionable suggestion regarding the NEET-UG re-
examination scheduled for June 21, 2026.
The Supreme Court, in its hearing of May 29, 2026, acknowledged that the paper
leak crisis reflects a deeper institutional failure — not merely a one-off lapse. The
Solicitor General informed the Court that you are personally supervising the
corrective process.
It is in that spirit that I respectfully submit the following.
THE CORE LOGIC
Every corrective measure being discussed — secure transportation, GPS tracking,
CCTV surveillance, stricter vendor oversight — is an attempt to make a
fundamentally leak-prone system safer.
But no amount of patching will make a physical paper leak impossible, because
the vulnerability is structural : paper must be printed, transported, and
handled by humans at every step of the chain.
The only truly foolproof method to prevent a paper leak is to have no paper —
and no human intervention in the question delivery chain.
MY SUGGESTIONS
A) Conduct the NEET-UG re-examination ENTIRELY as a Computer-Based Test
(CBT), with questions generated and delivered digitally — never existing as a
physical printout at any point in the chain. Questions randomised per candidate.
Zero transit vulnerability.
B) If the technical infrastructure — sufficient CBT centres with power backup,
servers, and verified candidates across all States and UTs — cannot be made
fully ready by June 21, 2026, then postpone the re-exam by up to two
months to get it right.
A two-month delay is a temporary inconvenience. Another paper leak — with 22+
lakh students affected — would be a national catastrophe and a generational
injustice.
A FREELY AVAILABLE PAPERLESS SYSTEM — WORTH EXAMINING
I would also urge you to direct the NTA to immediately examine a paperless, zero-
human-intervention examination system that has already been conceptualised and
made freely available at:
This system proposes eliminating physical papers entirely from the NEET
examination process.
It is freely available for NTA's review and adoption.
Given the urgency of the situation and the Supreme Court's active scrutiny, it
would be both prudent and responsible for the NTA to evaluate this system
before proceeding with the re-exam — rather than defaulting again to a patched
version of the same broken model.
WHY CBT IS THE ANSWER
— No physical paper means no printing press vulnerability, no transit vulnerability,
no last-mile human-handling vulnerability.
— Questions randomised per candidate make mass copying structurally
impossible.
— NEET-PG 2025 was already conducted in CBT mode — the infrastructure and
precedent exist.
— The Radhakrishnan Committee itself has recommended transitioning NEET-UG
to CBT; this re-exam is the perfect moment to implement it.
— UPSC (certain exams), JEE (online mode), GATE, and global medical entrance
tests have demonstrated CBT integrity at scale.
A RESPECTFUL CAUTION
Rushing the June 21 re-exam in pen-and-paper mode — with hastily patched
security — risks a third consecutive NEET failure. That outcome would be far more
damaging to institutional credibility, to students, and to India's global standing in
education than a brief, well-communicated postponement.
The Supreme Court has noted that the PM is personally supervising this matter.
That personal attention, applied toward a clean CBT transition and a genuine
evaluation of freely available paperless solutions, would be the decisive and
lasting fix — not another round of patching.
I urge you to direct the Ministry of Education and NTA to :
1. Immediately assess CBT readiness for June 21.
2. Examine the paperless system at > www.ntaNEET.net < without delay.
3. Announce the mode change publicly.
4. Postpone if necessary — but do not compromise on the mode.
Respectfully yours,
Hemen Parekh
www.HemenParekh.ai | www.IndiaAGI.ai
Mumbai / 30 May 2026
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