The Indian political leadership tends to respond to mass protest with new laws, fast-track courts and inquiry committees, rarely addressing core issues. The Cockroach Janta Party agitation has met a similar fate: the immediate demand conceded, the upsurge mollified with new legislation, the promise of judicial scrutiny, and a task force. Instead, a crisis in education is being addressed as a technical problem. The task force’s mandate, as the Prime Minister has spelled it out, covers the entire examination system, not NEET alone. That is not what this task force is built to address.