How NTA Chief and BJP Man P.K. Joshi’s Stock Kept Rising, Despite His Failures

If Dharmendra Pradhan had to resign because he couldn't stop paper leaks, then why is this man still in his job? For the past few months, we've all been outraged at just the number of paper leaks in this country. We've all seen tens and thousands of protesters hitting the streets, demanding Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation because he couldn't stop paper leaks. But there's one more person we need to be talking about. That person is P.K. Joshi, the head of the National Testing Agency or the NTA. The NTA literally has just one job, which is to ensure that important exams like the NEET are held fairly without any hiccups. And that is the job that the NTA under Joshi has been failing abysmally at. I decided to dig deep into just what makes PK Joshi such an important figure that he is not sacked but Dharmendra Pradhan is sacked. Turns out Joshi for the last 20 years has occupied various positions of power and in almost every position there have been major controversies that have followed him From paper leaks to recruitment scams to scams even in the way that mark sheets are assessed by teachers later there have been at least 13 instances where i found various kinds of irregularities and disruptions in organizations that joshi was heading the question then is why is joshi so indispensable to the modi government well i found some documents which tell me that when joshi was first appointed his recommendation came from a very senior RSS leader and the recommendation said that he was also close to top BJP leaders. As a result Joshi remains in the chair. But the question really that we all need to ask is this. At least 12 NEET aspirants have taken their own lives because they couldn't handle the stress of the paper leaks and the retest. Millions of NEET aspirants had to go through the stress and the anxiety of appearing for NEET again only because the NDA couldn't do its job well. The question then is how fair is it for the NTA chief to remain in the chair while so many millions of lives get disrupted. To read the whole story about Joshi's record and about the NTA's troubling history itself, read my latest piece for The Wire.