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The district administrations should withhold permission for any rally, procession or public gathering on days of crucial competitive examinations to ensure smooth traffic and law-and-order arrangements are in place well in advance and no candidate is affected by external disturbances, a Parliamentary panel has recommended. The recommendation was made by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports, headed by Rajya Sabha MP Mukul Wasnik, while presenting a report on "Reforms and Strengthening of the National Testing Agency (NTA)" to the Rajya Sabha chairman on Friday. The report follows a controversy surrounding the NEET paper leak and alleged administrative lapses in the NTA, which led to nationwide student protests and ultimately the resignation of then-education minister Dharmendra Pradhan "Public rallies, processions, or large gatherings on the day of examination can delay candidates and cause them to miss their reporting time. The committe
The National Testing Agency, which moved its operations to a new office following a huge controversy over the NEET paper leak and administrative lapses, will now be guarded by CISF to ensure foolproof arrangements in the "confidential areas" on its premises, officials said. The move comes after the question paper leak of medical entrance exam NEET-UG earlier this year, which sparked nationwide student protests and led to the resignation of then Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan. A day after Pradhan's resignation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the constitution of a high-powered task force headed by Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani to recommend reforms to make the exam system leakproof. The panel is yet to submit its report. According to a CBI chargesheet, which identified three subject experts as primary sources of the paper leak, there was no checking or frisking of experts during entry or exit from the confidential section at the National Testing Agency (NTA),
The National Testing Agency on Friday declared results for re-examination of UGC-NET papers for English, commerce and sociology. The NTA had last month announced the retest for the three papers of the UGC-NET June 2026 examination following complaints about several errors in these papers. "UGC NET June 2026 Examination Results Declared for English, Commerce, and Sociology. Candidates can view and download their score cards through the official website," the National Testing Agency (NTA) said in a post on X. The English paper was held on September 9 from 9 am to noon in first shift, while the commerce paper was conducted the same day from 3 pm to 6 pm in second shift. The sociology paper was held on September 10 from 9 am to noon in first shift. The NTA conducted the UGC-NET June 2026 examination from June 22 to 30 across 87 subjects for the award of Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), eligibility for assistant professor, and admission to PhD programmes.
The National Testing Agency (NTA) has released a tentative schedule of examinations from December 2026 to March 2027, officials said on Thursday. "The proposed schedule for NTA examinations from December 2026 to March 2027 has been released. Dates are tentative and may undergo changes owing to administrative, academic, statutory, logistical or other unforeseen circumstances," a senior official said. A total of 14 competitive examinations are scheduled to be conducted during the period. The frist edition of JEE-Main for engineering entrance is proposed to be held from January 22-24 and January 28-30, 2027, with January 31 as buffer date. The UGC-NET will tentatively be held from December 14-19, with December 20-21 as buffer dates. The Joint CSIR UGC-NET will be conducted from December 20-21. The Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) will be held on February 7, 2027. The Common University Post Graduate Admission Test (CUET-PG) will be held from March 1-5, March 8, March 12-20, an
The answer keys for the UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) were announced on Friday, the National Testing Agency said. "The Final Answer Keys of UGC-NET 2026 have been officially released for 84 subjects," the agency said in a post on X. The National Testing Agency (NTA) had ordered fresh examinations for candidates who appeared for the English, Commerce and Sociology papers in June this year after an expert committee found factual, typographical, translation and language-related errors in the question papers. The NTA released the UGC-NET answer key on August 16, nearly two months after the examination, while issuing a special notice concerning the Sociology, Commerce and English papers. Later, on the same day, it announced that the three examinations would be conducted afresh in September, citing the errors. The re-examinations are scheduled for September 9 and 10, and candidates will not be required to pay an additional examination fee. The NET is conducted by the NTA to deter
The Centre has appointed two directors and a joint director to the National Testing Agency (NTA), which has been facing flak for issues related to the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) paper leak, among other concerns. Ravi Kumar Singh (Indian Police Service officer) and Prasanna Venkatesh V, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, have been appointed as directors in the NTA, according to separate orders dated August 27, issued by the personnel ministry. Amit Samdariya, a 2016 batch Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Indirect Taxes) officer, has been selected for appointment as joint director in the NTA, an order issued by the personnel ministry said. All three orders referenced a circular from the personnel ministry stating that the appointed officers must assume their new positions within three weeks of the orders' issuance, "failing which the process of debarment from the Central Staffing Scheme shall be initiated." Recently, the government announced a ...
The National Testing Agency (NTA) needs "deep structural strengthening" to address recurring examination-security concerns, but replacing the agency altogether may not be the most useful solution, former UGC Chairman Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar said. Speaking to PTI, Kumar, Chairman of the Review Committee for NEP 2020, said the recurring paper-leak concerns should be viewed as an "end-to-end examination-security challenge", given the scale and complexity of examinations conducted by NTA. The Centre recently ordered several measures to strengthen the NTA and examination system following the NEET-UG paper leak issue, which triggered widespread student protests culminating in resignation of a minister, and the subsequent errors in the UGC-NET exam. The government has also set up a high-level committee under technocrat Nandan Nilekani, while a law on curbing unfair means in public examinations was passed in the recently concluded Parliament session to provide greater punishments. "NTA ...