The bill now goes to the Rajya Sabha, as it will need to clear the Upper House before going to President Droupadi Murmu for assent. Piloting the bill, Union Minister of State Jitendra Singh said the amendment showed the government was open to “learning from experience”. Education minister Pralhad Joshi later posted on X that the bill would be “ushering in a tougher legal framework to combat examination malpractices”. This prompted LS speaker Om Birla to ask Gandhi to confine himself to the bill; the House was adjourned multiple times over the exchange. The amendments strengthen the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act of 2024, which had already made every offence under it cognisable, non-bailable and non-compoundable, while keeping candidates themselves outside its scope.