MyVoice: Views of our readers 04th June 2026

Education minister should take the blame

The central government has transferred the CBSE chairman Rahul Singh and Secretary Himanshu Gupta amidst high-level inquiry into the dubious on-screen marking (OSM) system. Around 16,000 students applied for re-evaluation.

Soon thereafter, the portal came under cyberattack on a large scale. Though the officials of CBSE are being ‘punished’ for lapses, one wonders why the Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan does not own responsibility for the CBSE lapses and NEET paper leaks and submit his resignation.

P R Ravinder, Hyderabad

Prioritise relief to NEET aspirants

This is further to the editorial ‘PM’s oversight of NEET exposes deep failures in education ministry’. It is quite baffling that a country that can make nuclear subs cannot conduct a national level examination faultlessly. It is quite tough for students to write a competitive examination a second time.

Hopefully, this time around the probe will go to the bottom of the scandal and expose all scamsters involved in it. The government must come up with a system that will effectively address the flaws.

S Lakshmi, Hyderabad

NEET mafia stands exposed

This is further to your editorial ‘PM’s oversight of NEET exposes deep failures in education ministry’. The government should have taken strong and long-term steps, when there were leaks in the earlier NEET examinations. But, to blame the Prime Minister over this issue is unreasonable; though the opposition has been demanding the head of the Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan for the faux pas.

The NEET mafia stands exposed with many arrests of professors and trainers. All said and done, students were subject to great deal of mental agony following the developments in NEET and CBSE. Let us hope that there will be no lapses in NEET in the future.

K V Raghuram, Wayanad

Dharmendra Pradhan must go

Apropos the editorial “PM’S oversight of NEET exposes deep failures in Education Ministry”. It presents the systemic flaws plaguing NEET, with repeated paper leaks, administrative lapses and zero accountability on the part of the Education Ministry.

That this fiasco needed the Prime Minister’s intervention speaks of the systemic degradation of the country’s premier academic agency. Heads should start rolling and the first one should be the Union Education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who can no longer continue in office anymore. We need a more efficient minister, who won’t play around students’ lives.

Parimala G Tadas, Hyderabad-50

Nourish minds; flourish futures

This refers to your editorial ‘A new chapter added to Telangana ‘s education reforms’ (June 2). Telangana’s decision to provide breakfast and lunch to nearly two lakh Intermediate students is a visionary step. By linking nutrition with education, the state tackles dropout rates at the roots and gives dignity to learning.

After all, nourished minds can shape careers in medicine, engineering, and beyond. This is not a mere welfare but an investment in human capital. The move strengthens public institutions and restores faith in government colleges. If implemented well, this reform can become a model for the nation.

Vaithianathan Subramanian, Madurai