Andhra Pradesh's Mega DSC — billed as the state's largest-ever teacher recruitment drive — produced a Rank 1 topper who was simultaneously an outsourcing employee at SCERT, the body that conducted the exam. The government's response to this discovery was to delete the person's details from the database.
The State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) administers Andhra Pradesh's teacher recruitment examinations. In the Mega DSC drive — the state's largest-ever, with hundreds of thousands of candidates — the individual who reportedly secured Rank 1 was an outsourcing employee at SCERT itself. Once the conflict of interest became public, the candidate's details were removed from the database. Opposition YSRCP chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, who christened the exercise Mega Leak, Mega Corruption, also alleged that teaching posts under the sports quota were sold at approximately ₹15 lakh each and demanded a CBI investigation. The TDP-led coalition government described the allegations as desperate political drama and has not explained why the database record required editing after the controversy surfaced. The exam, designed to identify qualified teachers for Andhra Pradesh's public schools, continues to be called its biggest-ever.