*Many detained by police, released
Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Mar 16: NSUI, the student wing of Congress Party staged a massive protest outside the Ministry of HRD in Delhi against the frequent paper leaks in BJP ruled states and the suspicious role of institutions like NTA and APTECH in J&K.
NSUI National president Neeraj Kundan told the gathering that anti-student face of the Modi Government has come to the fore for a long time in the country. Institutions like NTA and APTECH, which conduct examinations across the country, are also unable to prove their credibility, and are under suspicion.
If we talk about Jammu and Kashmir itself, here a dubious agency named APTECH, which has been blacklisted, has been entrusted with the task of conducting the examination, which is definitely playing with the future of the students. For a long time, students in Jammu and Kashmir have been questioning the credibility and working style of this agency and are also protesting, today’s protest in Delhi is in support of the demands of those students of Jammu and Kashmir.
Kundan further said that the administration of Jammu and Kashmir has been continuously taking anti-people and anti-student decisions, and giving the responsibility of conducting the examination to a blacklisted agency is a proof that this administration does not care about the interests of the students. This agency named APTECH has been blacklisted in many states of the country and incidents of paper leak have come to the fore in the examinations conducted by this organization in Jammu and Kashmir itself in the past.
NSUI leader demanded that this agency should be barred from conducting the examinations and as it used to be done in the previous governments, the examinations should be conducted by some government and constitutional body only, otherwise NSUI will continue to protest more fiercely in the future. .
During the protest, hundreds of students and activists, including NSUI National President Neeraj Kundan, were arrested and taken to the Jaffarpur Police Station by the Delhi Police.