DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2024, LUCKNOW, LATE CITY, 16 PAGES Modi Sarkar ki Guarantee e Government of India cbc 22201/13/0252/2324 `6.00 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 Ensuring bright future of our daughters 3 crore 20 lakh accounts of girl children opened under Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana Scan for more information Hamara Sankalp Viksit Bharat AN EXPRESS INVESTIGATION The big all India exam leak 5-year fallout: Distress and despair hit 1.4 crore candidates; some wait 2 years plus; little action 15 states, leaks in 41 job-recruitment exams ■ Exams ■ Posts ■ Candidates ARUNACHALPRADESH UTTARAKHAND J&K ■3 ■ 2,330 ■ 2,49,000 HARYANA ■1 ■ 30 ■ 4,000 ■4 ■ 1,800 ■ 2,37,000 UTTARPRADESH ■2 ■ 6,980 ■ 8,41,000 ■1 ■ 3,300 ■ 19,00,000 HARIKISHAN SHARMA NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 5 THE GOVERNMENT on Monday introduced a Bill in Lok Sabha to penalise “malpractices in public examinations” with jail term of 3 to 10 years and fine which can extend to over Rs 1 crore. The Public Examinations (Preventionof UnfairMeans)Bill, ASSAM ■1 ■ 590 ■ 66,000 RAJASTHAN ■7 ■ 40,590 ■ 38,41,000 GUJARAT ■3 ■ 5,260 ■ 16,41,000 MAHARASHTRA ■2 ■ 6,560 ■ 11,25,000 KARNATAKA ■2 ■ 1,660 ■ 3,34,000 MADHYA PRADESH JHARKHAND BIHAR ■1 ■ 2,010 ■ 6,50,000 ■5 ■ 3,690 ODISHA ■ 1,64,000 ■1 TELANGANA ■ 1,000 ■5 ■ 5,000 ■ 3,770 ■ 6,74,000 10 years jail, Rs 1 cr fine: Bill in for Central exams... ■3 ■ 24,380 ■ 22,87,000 Figures are estimates based on data collected from states in the last five years NEW DELHI, GUWAHATI, BHOPAL, JAIPUR, HYDERABAD, FEBRUARY 5 THE BILL introduced Monday says it will serve as a “model draft for States to adopt at their UP govt dedicates Budget to Ram: ‘It’s for lok mangal’ MAULSHREE SETH LUCKNOW, FEBRUARY 5 DAYS AFTER the inauguration of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh on Monday dedicated its Rs 7.36 lakhcroreoutlayBudgetfor202425 to Lord Ram, saying it was inspiredby“RamRajya”andwasfor lok mangal (public welfare). 2024, is applicable to central recruitment and entrance exams conducted by the Union Public ServiceCommission(UPSC),Staff Selection Commission (SSC), Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs), Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS), and CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Vishal Srivastav CM Yogi Adityanath with Finance Minister Suresh Khanna. EXPLAINED PAGE 11 ...but it’s in states where the rot is wide and deep SUKRITA BARUAH, ANAND MOHAN J, HAMZA KHAN & SREENIVAS JANYALA `7.36 LAKH CR OUTLAY; TEMPLE TOURISM FOCUS discretion.” This couldn’t be more timely. For, it is in states thattheproblemof examleaksis most acute — and widespread. The Indian Express investigated 41 documented instances of leaks over the last five years in recruitment exams across 15 states — their governments cutting across party lines. What CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 FULL COVERAGE P 3,4 ‘CONG DIDN’T LET OTHERS BE ONE’ PM slams Congress ‘cancel’ culture, predicts BJP sweep LIZ MATHEW NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 5 IN A blistering attack on the Congress, the primacy of its Gandhifamilyandwhathecalled theparty’s“cancelculture,”Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in arguably his last speech in the 17th CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 PM Narendra Modi in Lok Sabha on Monday. PTI Lucknow