New Delhi: Aadhar-founder Nandan Nilekani, who is leading a high-powered task force on exam reforms, suggested generating questions papers with the help of AI on the day of important examinations at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum 2026 on Tuesday (October 13).“The issue that led to this committee is that of question paper leaks. Why do we need to have something called ‘a question paper’? Because that creates an economic incentive for it to be sold. One way to look at how to solve it is to have a massive bank of questions, and only at the last minute generate the question paper for the day,” Nilekani said. This will only be feasible if the exams are conducted in computer-based test (CBT) mode, he added. Whether creating a question bank also creates an economic incentive to leak it, he did not say.Nilekani is the chairman of a six-member high-powered task force on exam reforms set up by the Union government in July after education minister Dharmendra Pradhan was forced to resign. Pradhan’s resignation – after widespread protests due to repeated paper leaks and a crumbling education system – was the first resignation of its kind in the three terms of the Modi government. Shift to computer-based examsWhile speaking at the Bloomberg event, Nilekani said that the task force was evaluating the possibility of conducting all exams using CBT. “The committee is looking at how to make sure all exams are done on CBT. That requires a network of locations. We have 1,50,000 locations where young candidates can take a test and that needs to be expanded,” he said.How this will be done in a country with limited internet access and a large digital divide between urban and rural students, was not immediately clear from Nilkekani’s remarks.According to the Hindu, the National Testing Agency (NTA) has sought the All India Council of Technical Education’s (AICTE) help zero in on IT infrastructure and government institutions which can be used to set up standard testing centres. The government is not considering using private institutions over worries about the integrity of the process, the report said.“These are some of the systemic issues we will address in our committee and the PM is very keen to implement our suggestions,” Nilekani said. Task force Nilekani had led the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which implemented the contentious Aadhaar card, as founding chairman from 2009-2014. He had briefly joined the Congress and contested the 2014 Lok Sabha polls from the Bangalore South constituency.Other members of the committee are former ISRO chairman S. Somnath, former Intelligence Bureau (IB) director Tapan Deka, IIT Chennai director V. Kamakoti, former education secretary Anita Karwal and logistics expert Amrit Lal Meena. The Wire has previously noted that only Kamakoti has the experience of working in an academic institution.The task force, established a day after Pradhan’s resignation on July 26, has been given three months to submit its report.The task force has met 18 times in addition to 40 meetings involving other stakeholders. It has received over 50,000 suggestions from students, parents, and doctors’ associations, as well as from exam conducting bodies such as the National Recruitment Agency, Staff Selection Commission, and the Railway Recruitment Board, the Hindu reported.