Senior Officials From Education Ministry, NTA, & CBI to Appear Before Parliamentary Committee
The Parliamentary Committee has called upon senior officials from the Union Education Ministry, National Testing Agency (NTA) and CBI to appear before it on Friday. This high-profile move has been initiated as part of assurance and supervision regarding the management of national examinations through the agency.
This has come in wake of heightened public interest in the issues associated with structural weaknesses and misconduct in examinations carried out by the national agency, given that the agency had to cancel the NEET-UG 2026 examination on May 12 due to a paper leak in the exam. Over 22 lakh students were left stranded for the scheduled re-examination.
The parliamentary committee may raise questions about the NTA implementing the recommendations put forward by the K. Radhakrishnan Committee.
As has been pointed out, while suggestions have been made for structural reforms, it seems that the NTA continues to struggle with enormous logistical difficulties and dire shortages of staffing, with around half the new senior management posts that it has set up remaining vacant.
Moreover, the presence of representatives from the CBI at tomorrow’s meeting is a reflection of how serious the current criminal case being investigated really is. The investigating agency, which recently arrested several suspects involved in leaking question papers for exams from institutional insiders as well as career counselors through Telegram, will brief the parliamentary committee on all the points where the process of leak took place in relation to the exam distribution and printing systems.
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