They are beginning to find out.

"Nearly 700 students living in Canada are staring at deportation after the admission offer letters issued to them by a Punjab-based immigration and counselling services agent were found to be fake." India Today. "India has been consistently raising the issue with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar also taking up the matter with his Canadian counterpart, sources said and noted that Canadian authorities have been repeatedly urged to be fair since the students were not at fault." TOI. Neither are the Canadian authorities. They are also victims of a crime committed in India. These students have taken the places of genuine students from India and other countries. Who will compensate those who lost out? "The government of Canada has decided to postpone the deportation." Bad decision. It will only encourage more fraud. But, not just Canada. At least 7 Australian Universities are banning students from Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir for "fraudulent" and "non-genuine" applications. HT. Last November 7 Punjabi men in Italy protested because they had paid between Rs 0.8 and 2.1 million to fake travel agents who then sent them through 'donkey routes' to work in kiwi farms in Latina, Italy. The Wire. "According to data from the Punjab government, there are 7,200 travel agents across the state. The Punjab Travel Agents Association has 105 registered travel agents as its members." Why are Indians so desperate to escape from their homeland when Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to "do even more in the times to come so that we can build a strong and prosperous India in the Amrit Kaal." HT. Can't digest so much Amrit (divine nectar) it seems. Fake travel agents are flourishing because our education is also fake. "Business is blooming in India's $117 billion education industry and new colleges are popping up at breakneck speed. Yet thousands of young Indians are finding themselves graduating with limited or no skills." CNBC. An army with worthless degrees. If they can't be employed in India why should other countries take them? Even school text books are being doctored. "In the continuing war of words between NCERT and its former chief advisors, Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar asserted that the National Council for Education Research 'cannot hide behind our names'," because its "rationalisation exercise has 'mutilated' the books and made them 'academically dysfunctional'." TOI. Mutilate our children in schools and then finish them off in colleges. Why waste time and money on fake learning? "In 2021-22, official data revealed that the secondary school dropout rate in several states exceeded the national average of 12.6 percent. Gujarat, Bihar, Karnataka, Assam and Punjab were among the seven states where the dropout level at secondary school was higher." TOI. Of the 100% recruitment of children in primary schools, "83% girls and 81% boys clear secondary school, while 67.7% of girls and 61.6% of boys clear higher secondary; this results in a whopping 39% dropout rate for boys and a surprising 1.07 female-to-male ratio of students in educational attainment," wrote Shailja Vaidya Gupta. Apparently, IAS officer "Ankur Garg scored 171 out of 170 in a Harvard University examination in macroeconomics." The Print. While thousands with fake education depend on fake travel agents for fake papers to take the donkey route. Make it unnecessary.