NEET-UG Exam Row: High-Level Committee Formed By Education Ministry Holds First Meet

The first priority of the panel will be to elicit concerns and suggestions from parents and students. The panel will submit its recommendations to the education ministry within two months.

New Delhi: Amid a massive row over alleged paper leak and irregularities in NEET-UG examination and cancellation of other exams, the first meeting of the High-Level committee of experts constituted by the Ministry of Education was held on Monday to discuss developing a robust exam system.

A seven-member high level committee of experts, headed by former ISRO chairperson K Radhakrishnan, was constituted by the Ministry of Education to make recommendations for ensuring transparent, smooth and fair conduct of examinations through National Testing Agency (NTA).

As per a committee member saying in a video shared by the Ministry, the first priority of the panel will be to elicit concerns and suggestions from parents and students. The panel will submit its recommendations to the education ministry within two months.

Last week, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said that the government would set up a high level committee to reforms in NTA and the committee will be expected to make recommendations to further improve NTA, its structure, functioning, examination process, transparency and data security protocols to conduct zero error exams.

After the hue and cry over alleged NEET-UG paper leak and irregularities in several centres, the case has been handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The CBI has filed a criminal case based on a written complaint from the Director of the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education.

The allegations in the FIR state that the NEET-UG 2024 examination was conducted by the NTA on May 5 at 4,750 centres in 571 cities, including 14 cities abroad. Over 23 lakh candidates appeared for the examination, and certain isolated incidents occurred in a few states during the conduct of the exam.

According to CBI officials, special teams have been formed by the probe agency to investigate the matter on top priority and teams are investigating in Patna and Godhra, where local police cases have been registered. Several persons from various states have been arrested in connection with alleged involvement in the paper leak matter.

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