Opinion | NEET Protests Done And Dusted, Time Now To Discuss GenZ, Parental Culpability

The government created an imperfect, leaky testing system; but many willingly colluded to NEET-ly game it too

Now that the protests ostensibly about the “broken" Indian education system have wound down after the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan and the formation of a committee led by Nandan Nilekani to devise tech-driven structural reforms, it is time to address other issues: GenZ and, of course, those who rallied behind them, particularly parents, grandparents and non-students who swelled the numbers at Jantar Mantar and elsewhere in India to castigate “the system".

By definition, those who sit for the NEET exam are 17 years old and above; although there is no upper age limit, it stands to reason that not very many people above the age of 25 still attempt it. Their parents would therefore be in their 40s or above and would have been at least teenagers during the Mandal Commission agitation that seared India in 1990. Thousands of students went to extreme lengths to register their opposition to caste-based reservations in jobs.

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Do any of these parents recall vitriolic expletives targeting the prime minister and other senior functionaries during those Mandal agitations? Did teenagers and........

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