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NEET Row: Over 1,500 Students To Appear For Retest Today, Oppn Attacks Centre Over Paper Leak

NEET Row: Amid the row over the alleged malpractices in the conduct of the NEET examination, the NEET-UG retest for 1,563 candidates is set to be held on Sunday. According to a senior National Testing Agency (NTA) official, the officials of the NTA and Union education ministry officials will be present at the examination centers. The retest for the medical entrance exam is being conducted after the agency withdrew grace marks awarded to students who were compensated for loss of time due to delay in the start of examination at six centers in Meghalaya, Haryana, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, and Chandigarh, as reported by news agency PTI. Meanwhile, the Union Health Ministry on Saturday announced that the NEET-PG Entrance Examination, scheduled to be held on June...
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The Hindu Morning Digest, June 23, 2024

Students from various organisation protest over the NEET-UG and UGC-NET examinations issue outside Ministry of Education in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: SHASHI SHEKHAR KASHYAP NEET-PG postponed, CBI to probe NEET-UG allegations, NTA chief removed, as panel set up for agency overhaulWith questions being raised about the “integrity of certain competitive examinations”, the Health Ministry announced the postponement of the NEET-PG entrance examination “as a precautionary measure”, just hours before it was due to be held on June 23 morning. This followed on the heels of decision to remove Subodh Kumar Singh from his position as Director-General of the National Testing Agency, which has come under fire for an alleged paper leak and irregularities in the NEET-UG examination, and other examinat...
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Video | NEET-PG Test Scheduled For Tomorrow Postponed As Exam Mess Spirals

The NEET-PG scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed and fresh dates will be announced soon, the Health Ministry said in a statement today.The government alluding to the huge row over alleged irregularities in NEET-UG and UGC-NET said it decided to "undertake a thorough assessment of the robustness of processes of NEET-PG, conducted by the National Board of Examination for medical students." Source link
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NEET PG 2024 Exam Postponed, New Dates To Be Announced Later: Health Ministry

The Union Health Ministry on Saturday announced that the NEET-PG Entrance Examination, scheduled to be held on June 23, has been postponed, as a precautionary measure in the wake of recent allegations on the integrity of certain competitive exams.  The fresh date of this examination will be notified at the earliest, the ministry said. "Taking into consideration, the recent incidents of allegations regarding the integrity of certain competitive examinations, Ministry of Health has decided to undertake a thorough assessment of the robustness of processes of NEET-PG Entrance Examination, conducted by National Board of Examination for medical students. It has accordingly been decided, as a precautionary measure to postpone the NEET-PG Entrance Examination, s...
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Govt Replaces NTA Chief Amid NEET Row, Pradeep Kharola Given Additional Charge As DG Of Exam Bo

Amidst the ongoing row surrounding NEET-UG exam 2024, the government sacked National Testing Agency chief Subodh Kumar, replacing him with IAS (Retd) Pradeep Singh Kharola, who will now helm the exam body. Kharola has been given additional charge of the post of Director General, NTA, Ministry of Education. Shri Pradeep Singh Kharola, IAS (KN:85) (Retd.) assigned charge of Director General, National Testing Agency, Ministry of Education. pic.twitter.com/No86pM9Gfr — Ministry of Education (@EduMinOfIndia) June 22, 2024 Education Loan Information:Calculate Education Loan EMI Source link
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NEET-NET paper leaks row: Centre removes NTA director general Subodh Kumar Singh | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Central govt on Saturday removed NTA director general Subodh Kumar Singh from his post and put him on "compulsory wait" in DoPT amid recent irregularities in exams including Neet and UCG-NET.Meanwhile, Pradeep Singh Kharola has been given additional charge of the post of Director General, National Testing Agency (NTA) by the ministry.Earlier, today the ministry of education constituted a high-level committee of experts to ensure transparent, smooth and fair conduct of examinations amid the NEET and UGC-NET row.The 7-member committee will be led by former Isro chief Dr K Radhakrishnan. The committee also includes Dr Randeep Guleria, Prof B J Rao, Prof. Ramamurthy K, Pankaj Bansal, Aditya Mittal, Govind Jaiswal.The committee will submit its report to the ministry within 2 month...
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Paper leaks row: Centre sets up high-level panel to reform exam process, ex-Isro chairman to head committee | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The ministry of education on Saturday constituted a high-level committee of experts to ensure transparent, smooth and fair conduct of examinations. The committee will make recommendations on reform in the mechanism of the examination process, improvement in data security protocols and structure and functioning of NTA.Committee will submit its report to the ministry within 2 months.!(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) { function loadFBEvents(isFBCampaignActive) { if (!isFBCampaignActive) { return; } (function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) { if (f.fbq) return; n = f.fbq = function() { n.callMethod ? n.callMethod(...arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments); }; if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n; n.push = n; n.loaded = ...
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Amid NEET, UGC-NET Row, Centre Notifies Anti-Paper Leak Law To Prevent Use Of Unfair Means

NEET Row: Amid the row over the alleged malpractices in the conduct of NEET and UGC NET examinations, the Central government notified the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024, on Friday. It is an anti-paper leak law for examinations for central recruitment and entrance into central educational institutions. The act aims to curb the use of unfair means in public examinations and common entrance tests held across the country   A gazette notification issued by the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances, and Pensions said, "In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 1 of the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024 (1 of 2024), the central government hereby appoints the 21st day of June 2024, a...
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‘Unavoidable circumstances’: Joint CSIR-UGC-NET June 2024 examination postponed | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Friday postponed the Joint Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) University Grant Commission (UGC) National Eligibility Test (NET). The CSIR-UGC-NET examination of June 2024 was originally slated to take place from June 25 to 27.NTA gave reasons of 'unavoidable circumstances and logistic issues.' The new dates for this examination will be announced later on the official NTA website.The Joint CSIR-UGC NET fellowship programme aims to foster National Science & Technology Human Resource Development. CSIR awards a large number of Junior Research Fellowships (JRFs) annually to candidates who qualify in the test conducted by the organisation. The program determines the eligibility of Indian nationals for roles such as JRFs, ...
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NTA Postpones Joint CSIR-UGC-NET June 2024 Exam Due To ‘Unavoidable Circumstances’

The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Friday postponed the Joint CSIR-UGC-NET Examination scheduled for June 25 to 27, due to "unavoidable circumstances" and logistic issues. The revised schedule for the exam will be announced later on the official NTA website. In an statement issued on June 21, the agency said, "NTA postponed the Joint CSIR-UGC-NET Examination June 2024 which was scheduled to be held between June 25 to 27". "It is being postponed due to unavoidable circumstances as well as logistic issues. The revised schedule for the conduct of this examination will be announced later through the official website," it added. Earlier on Wednesday, the Education Minister cancelled the UGC-NET- examination, which is held in June and December every year to ...
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‘Isolated incidents should not impact lakhs of deserving students who cleared exam rightfully’ says Pradhan amid calls for NEET UG cancellation – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Amid intense controversy and calls from the opposition to redo the NEET-UG medical entrance exam, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan stated on Thursday that isolated cases of misconduct should not harm the thousands of students who rightfully passed the exam. Calling the UGC-NET exam paper leak an "institutional failure" of the National Testing Agency (NTA), he announced that the government would form a high-level panel to investigate the agency's operations.At a press conference here, Pradhan also appealed to the opposition parties not to politicise the issue and said strict action would be taken against those found guilty, including "top" officials of the NTA. Ahead of the hurriedly called press conference, there were strong indications that the minister may announ...
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We feel exploited, say angry students

Students Federation of India (SFI) supporters burn an effigy as they protest, condemning the National Testing Agency (NTA) over the cancellation of the UGC-NET June 2024 exam and demanded resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, on Thursday. | Photo Credit: ANI As scores of students took to the streets on Thursday against the cancellation of the University Grants Commission-National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) and irregularities in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), several aspirants said they have been left feeling “exploited” by the “unfairness” of the the National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts both the tests. While the NTA is embroiled in a controversy over irregularities, including inflated marks and paper leak, in NEET, the Education Minist...
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SC clubs all NEET pleas but refuses to stay counselling | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear National Testing Agency's plea to transfer multiple cases in high courts demanding cancellation of NEET-UG to the apex court even as it refused students' plea to stay counselling for admission in medical colleges.The SC is flooded with petitions on alleged irregularities in conduct of the test and it issued notices on 13 fresh petitions filed by students and NTA.More than three dozen petitions have been filed by more than 100 students so far in the SC. The court has issued notice on all petitions and clubbed them together to be heard on July 8.One of the petitioners challenged the decision to hold a re-test for 1,563 students who were earlier granted grace marks for not getting the full time to take the test. However, the vacation benc...
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Opposition leaders criticise NTA over UGC-NET cancellation | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Opposition leaders on Thursday mounted an attack on the National Testing Agency (NTA) after the UGC-NET exam was cancelled and accused the agency as well as the Union government of destroying the future of students who appeared for these exams.The UGC cancelled the UGC-NET examination on Wednesday, a day after it was held, after receiving certain inputs from the National Cyber Crime Threat Analytics Unit of the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) under the ministry of home affairs on the examination.Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav hit out at the Centre saying the paper mafia is "rigging exams" under BJP rule. The former UP chief minister said if the police recruitment exam is leaked, it will have a bearing on law and order while if there is a fraud in the NEET e...
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UGC NET controversy: Candidates spotted several irregularities, here’s what they faced – Times of India

NEW DELHI: On Wednesday night the Ministry of Education announced the cancellation of the UGC NET June 2024 exam, held just a day prior on June 18, 2024, Tuesday. The decision by the Ministry comes amidst a furore on the medical entrance exam NEET over alleged irregularities. With the UGC NET exam now under review after the NEET UG row, candidates and stakeholders have raised concerns about the NTA's conduct of exams.TOI spoke with a number of candidates who took the UGC NET June 2024 exam on June 18, across several states and centres. Here’s what we have learnt about the glitches and irregularities observed in this year’s test.Exam-day registration process was smooth, but not without discrepanciesIn an unprecedented move, the NTA attached ‘hologram stickers’ at the time of candidate re...
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SC issues notice to government, NTA on pleas seeking cancellation of NEET-UG 2024: Top developments | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday sought response from the Central government and the National Testing Agency (NTA) on pleas seeking cancellation of NEET-UG 2024 exam.It also stayed ongoing proceedings on several petitions regarding the medical exam that were being considered by various high courts across the country. The petitions are scheduled to be heard on July 8.This came after the education ministry on Wednesday decided to cancel the UGC-NET exam "on the basis of inputs from Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) under the Ministry of Home Affairs, prima-facie indicating that the integrity of the examination may have been compromised."Here are top developments in the story:SC to hear petitions on NEET-UG 2024 on July 8; all proceedings in HC stayedThe SC bench compris...
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Will Raise Paper Leak Issue In Parliament: Rahul Gandhi On NEET Controversy

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday slammed the Centre-ruling party on the recent paper leak controversies. Addressing a press conference, Gandhi stated that the Opposition would raise the question of paper leaks in the parliament.  #WATCH | Delhi: When asked if he will raise the NEET issue & UGC-NET exam cancellation in Parliament, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi says, "Yes, we will raise the issue in Parliament." pic.twitter.com/BMhZYOxDLF — ANI (@ANI) June 20, 2024 "When I went on my Bharat Jodo Yatra, students told me that paper leaks are one of the biggest issues in the country. NEET and UGC-NET papers were leaked. It was said that Narendra Modi stopped the war between Ukraine and Russia, and also, the conflict between Israel and Gaza,...
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Video | Under Fire For Scrapping NET, Education Ministry Says Took Proactive Action

Amid the massive row surrounding the cancellation of the UGC-NET exam, the Education Ministry has said that the test was scrapped because its integrity may have been compromised and has emphasised that it won't hesitate to take action against anyone. Govind Jaiswal, joint secretary in the Education Ministry, told the media that the exam, for which over 11 lakh students had registered, was cancelled on the basis of inputs received from the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre. The exam, which was held on Tuesday, was cancelled yesterday. Source link
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NEET UG 2024 re-exam admit card out for 1563 ‘affected’ candidates at neet.ntaonline.in: Direct link to download – Times of India

NEET UG 2024 re-exam admit card: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has released the admit cards for the NEET UG 2024 re-exam today, June 20. Candidates can download their admit cards from the official website, exams.nta.ac.in/NEET/, by using their application number and date of birth.The NEET UG re-exam will take place on June 23, 2024, from 2 PM to 5:20 PM in pen and paper mode for 1,563 students.According to the NTA's notice, this re-exam is specifically for candidates who were given "compensatory marks" during the initial evaluation. For these affected candidates, those who opt not to retake the exam will have their results based on the actual marks they received in the May 5 exam, without the compensatory marks.How to download NEET re-exam admit card:Step 1: Visit the official websi...
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SC: Negligence of even 0.001% in NEET must be examined | India News – Times of India

New Delhi: Observing that even 0.001% negligence in conducting NEET-UG must be examined thoroughly, Supreme Court on Tuesday said Centre and National Testing Agency (NTA) should admit if there had been any mistake in organising the test and rectify it, instead of denying it.As allegations of mismanagement and question paper leak marred the medical entrance examination taken by over 24 lakh candidates and against which students in different parts of the country are holding protests, a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and SVN Bhatti expressed concern over students indulging in illegal and corrupt means to get admission in MBBS courses and said this was "deleterious to society".The bench said timely action should be taken by authorities in such cases as children put a lot of hard work for the...
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