Letters to The Editor — May 13, 2026

NEET cancelled

Around 22.79 lakh students appeared for the “common and azygous National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET-UG) for admittance to undergraduate aesculapian acquisition successful aesculapian institutions crossed the country”. And now, without warning, it stands cancelled. This is not new. Every year, aft 1 of India’s astir prestigious and high-stakes examinations, the rhythm repeats itself: a insubstantial leak, an administrative lapse, oregon a “technical glitch,” and the aboriginal of lakhs of children is enactment connected hold. The existent question we indispensable inquire is this: Are we genuinely superior astir our students’ futures?

These young students dedicate years, not weeks, to preparing for a azygous examination. They sacrifice their teenage years attending coaching classes. Their families put savings, hope, and sacrifice. Then, overnight, a header declares their effort void. Is our strategy truthful fragile?

A cancelled introspection is not simply a bureaucratic error. It is simply a breach of trust. It tells each pupil that their clip is disposable, their anxiousness is irrelevant, and their aboriginal is negotiable.

Shikha Chauhan,

New Delhi

Austerity appeal

The Prime Minister’s telephone for austerity is simply a wide admittance of failure, coming lone aft the strategical suppression of economical information during the predetermination cycle. The crushed world is acold removed from the government’s propaganda. However, we are present astatine a juncture wherever the nationalist involvement indispensable supersede governmental accountability. While we indispensable condemn the government’s deficiency of transparency, the work to sphere resources for aboriginal generations present falls upon us. We should follow carpooling and substance conservation not due to the fact that the “sermon” is flawless, but due to the fact that the government’s nonaccomplishment has near the nationalist arsenic the last enactment of defence for India’s economical future.

Zaid Daraani,

Vitla, Mangaluru