About Durjeya

दुर्जेय — that which cannot be defeated.

दुर्जेय is not our description. It is the standard we are held to.

On the name

Why दुर्जेय

दुर् (dur) does not mean never. It means hard — difficult, costly, punishing to attempt. दुर्जेय is that which is hard to conquer. The word concedes precisely what अजेय denies: that defeat is possible. It makes a claim about the price of defeating something, not about the impossibility of it.

दुर्जेय is not a boast. It is a specification.

That concession is the entire discipline. No examination can be made un-attackable, and anyone who tells an examination board otherwise is selling something. What can be done is to raise the cost of attacking it above the value of what is won, and to ensure the attempt leaves evidence. That is what security engineering actually is: not a promise of invulnerability, but an arithmetic of cost. दुर्जेय is the honest word for it.

The same दुर् builds दुर्ग (durga) — a fort, literally that which is hard to enter — and दुर्गम (durgama), impassable terrain. This is the vocabulary of structure, not of courage. A fort does not ask its guards to be braver than other guards. It puts the walls where the ground is hardest to cross. India has treated examination integrity as a question of human character for seventy years — of honest couriers, honest printers, honest invigilators. It was always a question of where the walls are.

And the thing that has to be दुर्जेय is not this company. It is the merit of the candidate — what a student actually knew, on the morning they sat down. That is what must survive the paper, the centre, the record, the people who handle it, and us.

A name cannot make that true. It can only say what we agreed to be measured against.

Our Story

In July 2022 — two years before the NEET paper-leak scandal broke, and four years before a leaked paper forced India to cancel NEET outright and call twenty-two lakh candidates back to their desks — we filed a patent for a question almost nobody was asking yet: why must a question paper ever be readable to anyone before the exam hour?

Everyone else was arguing about stronger locks, tighter vans, better cameras. We had reached a harder conclusion: exams don't fail in the exam hall — they fail on the journey. Every press, strongroom and envelope between the board and the candidate is an act of faith in a human being. And faith, however sincere, is not a security architecture.

So we engineered faith out. The result became Indian Patent No. 572782 — granted 28 October 2025 to the founders of Durjeya — a way to deliver a sealed paper to thousands of locked devices, offline, inside the exam venue, where no one in between ever holds anything readable. Incubated at SINE, IIT Bombay, we then asked the question that follows: securing the paper is necessary — but who protects the candidate's trust in everything else? The answer is CORTEX, our patent-pending evidence chain that turns an entire examination into proof a parent can check on a phone.

We did not pivot to India's exam crisis. We were built before it — for it.

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Engineers at work on CORTEX
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Our Mission

Merit alone decides. Everywhere. Every time.

We exist to make examination integrity an engineering guarantee — not an annual hope. To replace "trust the system" with "check it yourself," so that a parent with a phone can verify what today even courts must accept on affidavit. To make sure one incident never again cancels the futures of crores of honest candidates, because integrity judged per candidate lets clean sessions stand.

And to do all of it with honest engineering: claims we can demonstrate, scope we state plainly, caveats we publish ourselves. Built in India, at IIT Bombay, for the largest examination system on Earth.

Founder team

Four founders who have run this problem before.

Complementary skill sets, deep familiarity with how examinations actually fail, and a track record of delivering under exacting conditions.

Founder & CEO

Govinda Rajulu Itham

More than thirty-five years across government and high-technology industries, including leading a multinational IT company whose focus was board examinations. Sets Durjeya’s corporate strategy and leads its execution.

Co-Founder & Research Advisor

Amit Kumar Gupta

A PhD with graduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Integrates advanced tooling across the CORTEX product suite and keeps research and development aligned with what examination bodies actually need.

Co-Founder & CTO

Binny Mohan Kanjur

A solutions architect with twenty years’ experience, focused on enterprise systems for high-stakes examinations. Directs the development of Durjeya’s technical solutions and their alignment with the company’s objectives.

Co-Founder & CIO

Vamshi Rahul Kurmapu

A product and solutions architect with twenty-five years in IT consulting, building fit-for-purpose systems under exacting conditions. Owns the CORTEX product roadmap, directs customer success, and shapes the company’s digital solutions.

The founders are named as inventors on Indian Patent No. 572782; the public register records the detail. The team is reachable through the company — please use the contact form or the office address in the footer rather than approaching individuals directly.

Milestones

The journey so far.

1 July 2022

The foundational invention

Indian patent application 202221038158 filed by the founders: secure offline distribution of secure data to offline user systems in a secured geographical area.

4 Jan 2024

International publication

Published via PCT as WO 2024/003947 A1 (PCT/IN2023/050644).

29 Jul 2023

MoU with AICTE, under NEAT

A Memorandum of Understanding is executed between AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) and Durjeya Solutions Private Limited at AICTE, New Delhi, under NEAT (National Educational Alliance for Technology).

27 Mar 2024

AICTE recommendation to affiliated institutions

AICTE issues a Recommendation Letter to the Principal, Director or Vice Chancellor of every affiliated college, institute and university, recommending the Secure Digital Examination Solution for the advancement of examination and assessment.

29 August 2024

Incubation at SINE, IIT Bombay

Admitted to IIT Bombay’s business incubator; operations at RBTIC, IIT Bombay campus, Powai.

8 Sept 2025

CSC Academy — primary channel partner

MoU signed with CSC Academy for delivery, expansion and commercialization of Durjeya’s examination technologies through CSC’s nationwide network — front-ending to national and state testing agencies.

28 Oct 2025

Indian Patent No. 572782 granted

The foundational method patent granted and in force — a 20-year term from 1 July 2022. Patentee: Durjeya Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

2026

CORTEX — patent-pending improvements

Provisional specification for the CORTEX verifiable-integrity layer: the signed, sealed, witnessed, published examination evidence chain. More patents filed and in process.

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Demonstrations for authorities and institutions

Closed-door briefings and live demonstrations for examination boards, universities and evaluators.

Intellectual property

Don’t take our word for it. Look it up.

A granted Indian patent is a public record, published in the Patent Office journal and searchable by anyone. We print the numbers so you can verify them in the official register yourself — which is the same principle the product is built on.

Granted · Indian Patent No. 572782
“Secure offline distribution of secure data to offline user systems present in secured geographical area”
Patentee: Durjeya Solutions Pvt. Ltd. · Inventors: Durjeya’s founders, named across the patent family on the public register
Application 202221038158 · Priority 1 July 2022 · Granted 28 October 2025 · In force, 20-year term from the priority date.
International publication · PCT WO 2024/003947
Published under the Patent Cooperation Treaty on 4 January 2024. It establishes an international filing date and puts the specification in the public domain.
Filed and pending · CORTEX and improvements
Further applications, including the CORTEX verifiable-integrity layer, are filed and under prosecution. Pending applications are not published until eighteen months from their priority date, so no numbers are listed here. Nothing on this site should be read as a claim that a pending application has been granted.
Search 572782 in the Indian Patent Office register — InPASS public search
Read the full specification and drawings — WO 2024/003947 on Google Patents
See the grant certificate — certificate image

Scope note: the granted claims cover the offline delivery method described above. Other capabilities shown on this site — including parts of CORTEX — are the subject of pending applications. We mark what is granted, what is merely filed, and what is neither, deliberately and separately.

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Parent, educator, authority or Govt. — if exam integrity matters to you, our door on the IIT Bombay campus is open.

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