New Delhi: Top officials of the ministries of health and education on Wednesday assured a Parliamentary panel that fool-proof measures have been taken to ensure that the NEET-UG re-exam on June 21 is conducted in a free and fair manner.
The Parliamentary Committee on Health and Family Welfare had summoned the secretaries in the two ministries over the conduct of the re-NEET after the exam for undergraduate medical admissions held on May 3 was cancelled over allegations of paper leak on May 12.
The panel also summoned top officials of the National Testing Agency (NTA) and the National Medical Commission (NMC).
The panel members asked the officials to adopt a foolproof system to ensure free and fair entrance exams.
They also told the officials that similar exams are held in China, the US and other countries but no paper leaks or malpractices happen there.
The members told the officials to learn from the best practices abroad and adopt such systems to ensure that the examination system is foolproof in the country.
They also called for better coordination between the NMC and the NTA, besides boosting the morale of the testing agency.
The members expressed concern over increasing suicide incidents among students, besides referring to rising anxieties among aspirants due to paper leaks and cancellations.
They also asked the government to help families of students who committed suicide.
The officials assured the members of fool-proof arrangements for the NEET re-exam scheduled for June 21.
This was the third parliamentary panel before which the top officials of the two ministries, NTA and NMC appeared after the NEET-UG paper row.
They had earlier appeared before the Parliamentary committees on education and government assurances, and told them that their complete focus for now was to hold the June 21 NEET re-test in pen-paper format.
CBI Director Praveen Sood also appeared before a parliamentary panel over the progress made in the probe into the NEET-UG paper leak case, and the steps being taken to arrest all those behind the paper leakage.
Their depositions before the panel were part of an in-depth review of the ‘Organisational Structure, Mandate and Functional Proficiency of Regulatory Institutions’ under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
