Discourses From the East
From Policy to Paper Leak: The Political Economy of NEET

The crisis surrounding NEET paper leaks cannot be understood merely as a failure of examination security or policing. It must instead be located within the long-term structural transformation of the Indian education system — a transformation that gradually shifted education from a public and social good into a competitive market governed by privatization, centralization, and high-stakes testing. The emergence of coaching capitalism and the recurring phenomenon of paper leaks are products of this deeper historical process.
