Source: Global Times
[Global Times Special Correspondent Hu Bobo Mu Zhi] "This is a very bad experience." Southern India Kerala 17-year-old girl A (original report hides her name) choked up and told the story about what happened to herself and other female candidates taking the Indian medical "college entrance examination". According to Indian media reports, these candidates were asked to take off their bras on the spot when they were under security check at the test site on the 17th. Faced with the doubts, the security personnel actually asked back at the scene: "Is your future important or is it important for underwear?"
According to the report of New Delhi TV in India on the 20th, candidate A took the NEET exam equivalent to the "college entrance examination" of Indian medical science at the examination site of Martoma Information Technology College in Quilon City, Kerala on the 17th. According to her, the female student who came to take the exam that day was told to take off her bra during the security check, otherwise the metal hook on the bra would make the metal detector beep. After some struggle, the female students eventually took off their bras because they were told that if they did not comply with the rules, they would be prohibited from taking the exam. The candidate's father reported to the police on the 18th that at the Martoma Institute of Information Technology, 90% of girls were asked to take off their underwear before the exam.
"They asked us to take off our bras and put them on the table. All the bras were tied together. We don't even know if we could get our (bra) back after the exam." New Delhi TV quoted candidate A and said that some girls cried in shame and anger, and one of the female security guards asked, "Why are you crying?" Some inspectors asked, "Which one is more important to you, your future or underwear? Don't waste our time." She said that after the security check was completed, the inspectors ruthlessly ordered the girls to pick up their bras and leave. "They asked us to hold the bra in our hands and leave. There was no need to put it on. This request made us very embarrassed. The scene was very dark and there was no place to change clothes... It was a terrible experience. During the exam, we pushed our hair to our chest because nothing was covering our bodies... There were boys and girls in the exam room, which really felt uncomfortable." Indian media reported that the NEET exam that day took a total of 3 hours. Several girls felt strongly humiliated the moment they unbuttoned the bra hook and kept crying during the exam.
NEET is the full name of "National Qualification and Admission Examination", which is an entrance examination that students applying for medical and dentist undergraduates in all cities must take. Science and technology and medical majors are very popular in India, and many people regard attending top science and technology and medical schools as an opportunity to "change fate", so the competition between the two exams is quite fierce. This year, up to 1.8 million students have signed up for the NEET exam. The exam is held at more than 3,500 test sites in 497 cities in India, and there are 14 test sites abroad.
To prevent candidates from cheating, the National Examination Bureau of India has clear requirements for candidates who take the National Medical Undergraduate Major Entrance Examination. Relevant regulations require that male candidates must wear half-sleeved shirts or T-shirts and cannot wear long-sleeved clothing. The dress should be light, not with pockets, zippers, large buttons or complex embroidery, and not wearing "Kurta" (a traditional men's clothing, similar to knee-length skirts). In addition, candidates entering the examination room cannot wear shoes; the dress codes for female candidates are stricter. In addition to the above requirements, they cannot wear jeans, leggings or wide-leg pants, and they must not wear earrings, nose rings, rings, necklaces, bracelets or any other metal products that may cause the metal detector to buzz.
The Marthoma Institute of Information Technology, involved in the incident, immediately denied that it was responsible for the incident. A person in charge of the college told Indian media that NEET's security check at the test site was outsourced to two institutions by the National Examination Bureau. The National Examinations Administration said it had instructed a fact-finding team to investigate the incident, and the agency had previously denied the allegations. Kerala police also launched an investigation into staff who mandatory candidates to take off their underwear and arrested five people involved.
Although the official came out to urgently "extinguish the fire", this incident still caused great controversy in India. India's First Post reported that several student groups in Kerala launched a protest march on the 19th, and some extremists even broke into schools and smashed classroom windows with sticks.Police eventually had to use force to disperse protesters, causing some protesters to be injured. The National Council of Women in India also noted the incident, and the chairman of the committee, Rega Sharma, asked the National Examinations Agency to conduct an independent investigation into this and "take appropriate action within the scope of the law".
In the past few years, cheating incidents in India have emerged one after another. Local governments and schools have taken different measures to prevent candidates from cheating, but strict systems often hurt innocent students. Many Indian netizens have also stood up for the "special treatment" suffered by female candidates on social media. They believe that the measures to force female candidates to take off their underwear and enter the examination room obviously do not realize the original intention of the examination organizers to prevent cheating. Many netizens also forwarded the collective cheating scandals of several local test sites during this year's NEET exam, and wrote that "I will not arrest this kind of real cheating case, but I will not hold the metal hook on the underwear of female candidates." According to Indian Press Trust , a test site in Rajasthan is still continuing to take the exam after the bell is ringing, and many people in New Delhi , Haryana and other places have also been found using fake photos to test instead.
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