Andhra Pradesh’s Mega DSC, meant to fill more than 16,000 teaching posts, has already become the state’s sharpest youth grievance. Neha Bora, national president of the All India Students’ Association (AISA) and a member of the youth-driven Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), criticized the ruling TDP government over the DSC Scam and expressed her concerns about the entire process. Where students, activists, and AISA state-level leaders participated in discussions on education, employment, and other issues concerning young people.
For lakhs of aspirants, it was years of coaching, family debt and one shot at a teaching job. What they got instead is a recruitment they cannot trust . The sports quota quietly moved from 2% to 3%. Old notifications were swapped for new ones. People who suspected mass copying asked for CCTV from exam centers and were told the footage was not there. A government that has nothing to hide does not lose the cameras. A government that wants the file closed tells students to stop imagining things.
Bora said after the people elect you, you do not get to dump your failures on the people you replaced. Accountability is not a campaign slogan. It is what you do when the merit list, the sports list and the camera record are all under a cloud.
The test was computer-based. It was digital. It was transparent. An SCERT-linked name that flashed at the top was later dropped because he skipped verification. Courts are full of cases; therefore, the process must be clean. Students are not required to accept that circular logic. Hundreds of petitions, a sports-quota exemption that appeared and then had to be walked back, and “footage not available” are not rumors invented by YSRCP. They are the reasons young people are still in the street.
So the demand is not theatrical. Hold an independent inquiry into DSC — not a departmental note, not a press conference by the education secretary. Publish what happened to the CCTV. Explain the quota and notification changes in writing, on the record. Clear the fee-reimbursement dues you already owe students. If this government cannot produce jobs at the scale it promised, pay an unemployment allowance instead of another lecture on the job calendar.
A Movement, Not (Yet) a Ballot
What makes this fight distinctive is who’s leading it. The Cockroach Janta Party, still officially just a “people’s movement organisation” rather than an electoral outfit, is betting that street pressure can force change without contesting a single seat. Bora pointed to precedent: the Gen-Z movement’s role in pushing the union education minister to resign amid the NTA/UGC-NET paper leak controversy and the farmers’ movement that forced the repeal of the three central farm laws. Neither victory came through a ballot box—both came through sustained public pressure. Her message to AP’s students was explicit: fixing a broken system doesn’t require standing for election. It requires refusing to let the issue die.
The Demands on the Table
Beyond an inquiry into the DSC process itself, the ask-list AISA and CJP have put to the state government is broader:
- Clear pending fee-reimbursement dues owed to students
- Establish more universities and higher-education institutions
- Introduce an unemployment allowance if the state can’t generate enough jobs
- Order an impartial, transparent investigation into DSC and Group-I exam irregularities
Taken together, it’s a case that the state’s youth-employment pipeline — from higher education access to exam integrity to what happens if a job never materializes — is failing at multiple points simultaneously, and that the government’s response so far has been defensive rather than corrective.
Political parties exist to serve the people, Bora said. If that is true, the TDP government should stop treating DSC candidates as a law-and-order problem or an opposition talking point. They are the people who believed a government job still meant a fair paper. They asked for the tape. The tape is missing. You are in power. You answer.
