A committee of Parliament has decided to review the reforms being done in the National Testing Agency (NTA) and the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak issue. For this, the committee has called NTA Chairman Pradeep Kumar Joshi and other officials for discussion.
Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports will take opinion on May 21 from senior officials of the Education Ministry on the alleged paper leak and reforms in NTA. This information has been given in the notice of Rajya Sabha.
NTA conducts central entrance examinations for many undergraduate courses across the country. In the meeting, K was formed for reforms in NTA. The status of implementation of the Radhakrishnan Committee report will be reviewed. Besides, the stage of investigation into the NEET-UG paper leak case will also be discussed.
This committee, headed by Congress leader Digvijay Singh, has called Vineet Joshi, Secretary of the Higher Education Department of the Union Education Ministry and NTA Chief Pradeep Kumar Joshi for discussions.
NTA had canceled the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Graduate) held on May 3 after allegations of irregularities surfaced. About 23 lakh candidates had registered for this examination. NTA had organized it across the country. According to NTA, information related to the alleged irregularities was received on the evening of May 7, four days after the examination.
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan had announced on Friday that the re-examination of NEET-UG will be held on June 21. He had said that from next year the medical entrance examination will be computer based.