India, November 2, 2026: What India’s leaky exam system can learn from Soviet shoe factories. The Hindu reported the development in a detailed account.

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The operations of the National Testing Agency (NTA) bear an uncanny resemblance to those of state-owned shoe factories in Soviet Russia. Since these factories were not driven by consumer demand, factories could meet the required production quotas they got from above by producing N number of pairs within a narrow range of sizes, regardless of whether they lay unsold on the shelves. Sure, shoe prices had been kept frozen for decades, calculated as a percentage of the lowest government wage, but the shoes did not fit your feet.

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