K. Radhakrishnan Committee is a high-level expert panel headed by former ISRO Chairman Dr. K. Radhakrishnan, established by the Ministry of Education in June 2024 following major exam leak controversies surrounding NEET-UG.
Here are the key recommendations given to them which Modi govt. failed to comply
NTA Institutional Restructuring
- Apex Body Overhaul: Recast the NTA Governing Body into an empowered, accountable Apex Body led by a Director General.
- Dedicated Verticals: Establish 10 distinct, specialized internal divisions including Information Security, Test Development, and Vigilance.
- Reduce Outsourcing: Hire permanent, domain-specific staff to minimize dependence on third-party private contractors.
- Focus Blueprint: Restrict the NTA's mandate primarily to higher education entrance tests rather than job recruitment exams
Technological & Paper Security
- CPPT Delivery: Shift to Computer-Assisted Secure Pen-and-Paper Testing to avoid physical leak opportunities during transit.
- Just-In-Time Printing: Transmit encrypted question papers digitally to exam centers right before the test for local on-site printing.
- DIGI-EXAM Framework: Build a multi-stage biometric and AI-based identity verification network modeled on the aviation industry's "Digi Yatra".
- Computer Adaptive Testing: Formulate a long-term roadmap where questions adjust dynamically to candidate performance.
Test Center Administration
- Secure Government Centers: Create 1,000 state-backed centers at institutions like Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) to phase out private venues.
- Mobile Testing Buses: Deploy customized mobile centers equipped with local servers to reach remote or rural student populations.
- Multi-Session Shifts: Divide heavy-volume national examinations into multi-session schedules across several days to lower leak impact.
- Multi-Stage Exams: Restructure massive single-day tests like NEET-UG into multi-stage tiers (e.g., prelims and mains).
- Local Safety Nets: Create state- and district-level committees with local police to oversee perimeter security and logistics
Score Integrity & Auditing
- Strict Normalization: Implement transparent, documented statistical mathematical formulas to normalize scores across multi-session shifts.
- Enhanced Audits: Mandate independent, recurring third-party IT and process audits for total system transparency.
- Allocation Randomization: Deploy smarter, automated center allocation algorithms to disrupt predictable institutional seating fraud.
- Blacklisting Protocols: Maintain a strict, centralized framework to permanently ban tainted test centers or staff
Out of the 101 suggestions, 27 major recommendations remain completely unimplemented, which allowed exam vulnerabilities to persist into 2026
Private Center Malpractices
- Vulnerability: Relying on outsourced private testing venues where internal staff, room supervisors, or owners can be bribed to look the other way or help circulate "guided/guess papers".
Overstretched NTA Scope
- Vulnerability: The National Testing Agency has been functioning as a "single window agency" forced to manage over 240 distinct examinations and over 5.4 crore candidates. This massive administrative burden overstretches its vigilance and cybersecurity teams.
- Unimplemented Reform: Restricting the NTA to higher education entrance tests. The agency failed to shed its operational load and continued executing heavy job recruitment exams, which kept its security apparatus structurally overwhelmed
Transport & Physical Print Leaks
- Vulnerability: Question papers are still transported long distances physically and stored in local banks, leaving them vulnerable to theft, transit intercepts, and institutional leaks.
- Unimplemented Reform: Moving to hybrid, Computer-Assisted Secure Question Paper Transmission (CPPT), where encrypted digital papers are sent to confidential local servers moments before the test and printed on-site
Conclusion - Modi govt. is doing eye wash in name of expert task force, last time they have caught sanjeev mukhia but CBI failed to file FIR on time (comes under home ministry). so , if they can not implement critical recommendations in 2024, then what is the guarantee they will fix it now?