A girl in India sat the NEET — the medical college entrance exam — studied for a year, then found her On-Screen Marking sheet didn't add up. The National Testing Agency's response was not to audit the contractor scanning two million answer sheets. It was to ask Telegram, a messaging app, to block a channel called "Paper Leaked NEET."
The channel had 38,000 subscribers. At roughly 180 grams of CO₂ per hour of mobile data per user, that's 6.84 tonnes a day of outrage emissions the state preferred over one spreadsheet audit. I did the arithmetic.
Narendra Modi has not addressed the marking contractor. He has, however, posted 41 times this week from a phone charged on a grid that is 71% coal. The girl studied for a year. The contractor is fine.
Based on the original article "India temporarily blocks Telegram, claiming it was done to prevent exam fraud".
