Teachers and their representative bodies have long been pointing out the disasters inherent in the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 as well as specifically the scam of the National Testing Agency (NTA) and the central role given to EdTech companies in the NEP.  EdTech companies are to offer courses apart from testing (we have seen how well that has gone!)  thus eventually replacing universities and schools altogether.

Here we post the statement by Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers’ Association, issued last week in the context of the collapse of India’s examination system.

Links to two relevant earlier posts on Kafila:

The National Testing Agency is a scam – shut it down now! Ayesha Kidwai

NEP 2020 – elitist and corporatized education under Hindu Rashtra: Nivedita Menon

Statement by JNUTA (6th June 2026)

The JNU Teachers’ Association and the larger community engaged in teaching and learning across the country have been consistently writing and cautioning the government that the move toward over-centralization in the Indian education system was against the federal structure of India and would result in the erosion of academic integrity in the country. The current state of the education system serves as a grim validation of these warnings, proving that the National Testing Agency (NTA) and the NEP 2020 are direct attacks on the constitutional, social, and the academic fabric of our educational system. JNUTA had time and again reiterated that for a country as geographically and socially diverse as India and where education is a Concurrent List subject, increased centralization in the hands of NTA has been a recipe for disaster. Despite evidence of zero academic competence, the NTA which was established as a registered society in 2018 under the MoE, was brazenly entrusted with the future of crores of students, replacing University’s own entrance exams and those conducted by specialized bodies like the AICTE, CSIR, UGC, ICAR, and NCHM. Continue reading Over-centralization in Indian education system – the warning was ignored and the crisis is here: JNU Teachers’ Association →