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The Parents Association of Andhra Pradesh (PAAP) has demanded the Central and State governments to wholly displacement from the ‘pen and paper’ mode to ‘computer-based trial (CBT)’ for each aboriginal examinations, including NEET and EAPCET.
In a missive addressed to Union Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan, the PAAP members appealed that the continued usage of ‘pen and paper’ mode has repeatedly led to leaks during printing, proscription and storage.
They mentioned that the caller NEET insubstantial leak is not an isolated incidental but a repetition of the 2024 scandals successful Bihar and Gujarat. They alleged that a profoundly entrenched organization mafia was progressive on with coaching centres, middlemen, printing presses and negligent officials.
A NEET aspirant from Vijayawada, Ch. Dheenuka, expressed the symptom of lakhs of students, “As per the reply key, I was expecting 330 retired of 720 marks. Now I person to hole each implicit again. All our hard enactment and our parents’ sacrifices person gone successful vain.”
PAAP president S. Narahari said, “In Andhra Pradesh alone, much than 58,000 students appeared for NEET-UG 2026 crossed 180 introspection centres. Nationally, astir 22.75 lakh students registered for the exam. Parents person spent betwixt ₹2 lakh to ₹5 lakh per pupil implicit 1-2 years.”
“The full estimated expenditure by students of A.P. is astir ₹1,500-3,000 crore. This reflects the immense sacrifice and spot placed by parents successful the system. However, this spot has been repeatedly betrayed owed to systemic failures and alleged nexus betwixt the radical down the leaks and NTA officials,” helium said.
In different missive to A.P. Education Minister Nara Lokesh, the PAAP members urged to behaviour the EAMCET and different exams with precocious modular of security. They besides requested the implementation of foolproof method safeguards specified arsenic encrypted question slope and real-time monitoring.
