As the to and fro goes on, we have to look at how cheating is evolving in new and ingenious ways. While committees are being formed to stop cheating and institutes are taking some steps to tackle this, it is evident that like a lot of other rot, cheating has also percolated our educational system through the years, and lodged itself tenaciously.

It has been happening for so long, that it has become part of the system itself. It is inevitably, and in many cases is not treated with the gravitas it deserves. In the Bihar case, what shocked the nation was the audacity of the parents and the scale at which the cheating happened.

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In this case, disputed though it is, if teachers were participating in the cheating, or in fact, helping it, then it once again points to the fact that before anything else, the strongest defence against copying is a watertight value system.

The importance of fairness and a conscience has to be instilled in children. It is upbringing, family values and a sense of fairness and justice that is the biggest deterrent to copying, which benefits nobody, least of all, the student that indulges in it.