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Supreme Court issues a notice and seeks response from the National Testing Agency (NTA) and Centre on pleas relating to alleged paper leaks and malpractices in NEET-UG, 2024. “If there is 0.001% negligence on the part of anyone it should be thoroughly dealt with,” observes the Supreme Court.
According to ANI , A vacation bench is hearing a batch of pleas pertaining to NEET-UG, 2024 examination. The court today came down heavily on the National Testing Agency which conducts the nationwide exam for medical college aspirants.
Last week, the NTA told the Supreme Court that grace marks given to 1,563 candidates in the NEET-UG exam would be scrapped and the candidates had the option of taking the exam again on June 23. The results of the re-test will be declared before June 30, the top court was told.
Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan who had initially laughed off any wrong doing , admitted that “some irregularities in NEET have come to light from some specific locations”.
“Some irregularities have come to light in two places. I assure students and parents that the government has taken this seriously. Even if big officials of NTA are found guilty, they will not be spared. A lot of improvement is required in NTA. The government is concerned about this, no culprit will be spared, they will get the harshest punishment,” Pradhan was quoted as saying .
