The wrong first-year MBBS paper sat on the desks for about 15 minutes. University observers were already in the hall.

The college opened the packet it had. The packet was for the other batch.

On Thursday, 20 August 2026, first-year MBBS question papers were swapped at Nandyal Government Medical College. The mix-up became public on Friday, 21 August. Nandyal here is Nandyal district. It is not Kurnool. The college is a government medical college in that district.

NTR University of Health Sciences mailed the papers to the college. Papers meant for 2023-batch students arrived first. Those papers were issued as if they were the current regular-batch paper. Regular-batch papers then arrived by the same mail and were issued to supplementary students. That is the whole of the swap as the public card writes it. This desk will not invent a clerk, a peon, or a named officer who put the wrong bundle on the wrong table. Who swapped is not on the file. Scores are not on the file. Neither will be invented.

The error was noticed after about 15 minutes. Students were stopped. The papers were taken back. The correct papers were issued. Extra time was given so students would not lose out. Four students were writing the supplementary examination. One hundred and fifty were regular students. About is the word on the fifteen minutes. Four and 150 are the headcounts.

NTR University observers were present. They did not catch the mix-up in time. Present is not the same as having stopped the issue. This desk will not turn that sentence into a chargesheet against an unnamed observer. It will not invent an inquiry the university has not, on this card, ordered.

College principal Dr Surekha said the paper swap was true and that staff corrected it as soon as they noticed. That is a confirmation, not a confession of a named culprit. Staff is a group noun. It is not a roll number. It is not a department. The principal’s line is the only named-person line on the card.

What this card does not contain matters as much as what it does. There is no university inquiry order. There is no cancelled-examination order. There is no malpractice finding. A reader who wants a cancelled Thursday, a re-examination date, or a student who scored zero will have to wait for a paper that contains those things. This desk’s job is narrower. It is to keep Thursday’s date, Friday’s publicity, the 2023-batch packet issued as regular, the regular packet issued to the supplementary four, the fifteen minutes, the 150, the observers who were in the hall, and the principal who said it happened.

Nandyal Government Medical College is in Nandyal district. Nandyal town, Dhone, Nandikotkur, Atmakur and Allagadda are the Nandyal-district urban lock. Kurnool Corporation, Adoni, Yemmiganur, Gudur and Bethamcherla sit in Kurnool. This college is not a Kurnool urban story. A Kurnool news slug does not move a medical hall across a district line.

A first-year MBBS paper is a university paper. It is supposed to be issued to the batch it was set for. A 2023-batch paper in a regular-batch hall is a break in that chain. A regular-batch paper in a supplementary hall is the same break running the other way. Fifteen minutes is long enough for a student to have read questions that were not theirs. Extra time is the college’s repair. Repair is not inquiry.

The university mailed two sets. The college issued each set to the hall that was not meant to sit it. Observers watched and still missed the first quarter-hour. The principal has said the swap is true. Those four sentences are the public file. They are enough to ask who checks a mailed packet before it is issued. They are not enough to name the hands.

Until the university writes an order that is not on this card, the honest picture is a confirmed swap, a stop, a reissue, extra time, four supplementary students, 150 regular students, and observers who were present and late. This desk will not name the hands that opened the wrong packet. Those hands are not in the file. It will not print a mark, a rank, or a failed student. Those numbers are not in the file either.

This is not a closed examination scandal. It is a government medical college that issued the wrong university paper with university observers in the room, then put the right paper down and added time. The inquiry, if there is one, has not been published here.