Prof. Indranee Dutta

Prof. Indranee Dutta

Prof. Indranee Dutta is an academic and social scientist from Assam who has been associated with research, higher education, and social development studies in Northeast India. She is best known for her work in the fields of education, health, gender, and social change. Prof. Dutta served as Director of the Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development, a premier social science research institute in Assam. Through her teaching, research, and institutional leadership, Prof. Dutta has contributed to the development of social science scholarship and public discourse in Assam and the wider Northeast region of India.

From Policy to Paper Leak: The Political Economy of NEET

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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.

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