Walk into any university warehouse in India and you’ll see it: endless stacks of brown boxes, each packed with answer sheets from exams long forgotten. They gather dust for years, never opened, never recycled. Multiply that scene across thousands of campuses, and you start to understand the scale of our problem.

Every year, 4.3 crore students in higher education sit for nearly 100 crore examinations. To keep that system running, we cut down millions of trees. A single tree gives us about 8,000 sheets of paper. Now imagine how many vanish just to feed an exam system that feels stuck in the past.

And paper is only half the story. Printing costs run into crores. Trucks ferry answer sheets across states under heavy security. Universities pay for warehouses and guards. Meanwhile, students wai

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