Opinion | Can Nilekani’s Team Better China, S Korea, Singapore, And US Models Against Exam Leaks?

China’s Gaokao model is widely regarded as one of the most comprehensive and leak-resistant, handling over 13 million candidates annually with rare successful mass leaks.

He is both revered and reviled as the ideological driving force behind India’s new nationalism and Hindutva. But when a job needs to be done, PM Narendra Modi can walk unhesitatingly across the ideological bay and give the task to someone as competent and experienced as former Infosys boss Nandan Nilekani.

Nilekani is literally the architect of India’s digital public infrastructure (DPI) or the India Stack. From Aadhar to UPI, FASTag to DigiLocker, everything has his fingerprints all over.

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So, when a PM cornered and concerned by the recent student protests against repeated exam leaks needed to fix the system with a high-powered task force, he knew which number to dial. Modi’s seriousness about its efficacy can be guessed from the others he has put in the task force: former ISRO chairman S Somnath,........

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