Reporters Without Orders Ep 329: Gujarat’s NEET cheat sheet, murky political funding
Description
This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Sumedha Mittal and Shivnarayan Rajpurohit.
Sumedha spoke about her report on how candidates from outside Gujarat picked centres in the state as part of an alleged NEET scam racket. She explained how NTA’s management failed as students from Odisha, Bihar, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh travelled to Gujarat and “wrote” the exam in Gujarati.
Shivnarayan reported that 14 companies that significantly bankrolled political parties in the past decade were given several government projects, some despite being banned or blacklisted earlier. He delved into how raids, extortion and murky ecosystems lead to the quid pro quo.
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Timecodes
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:05:32 - NEET paper leak
00:15:50 - Electoral bonds
00:37:38 - Recommendations
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Sumedha
The caste alliances that won Uttar Pradesh
Shivnarayan
‘Gujarati answers, non-Gujarati candidates’: The NEET cheat sheet at 2 centres
Seats quota, banquet halls, buses and answers: How to leak a paper in Bihar
Basant
Produced and edited by Saif Ali Ekram, recorded by Naresh Kumar.
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