Tag: irregularities

Kolkata, Members of CPI(M)’s student wing SFI held demonstrations outside two universities here on Thursday as part of a day-long strike to protest alleged irregularities in NEET and UGC NET exams. They burned tyres in front of one of the gates of Jadavpur University in the southern part of the city and before the main gate of Presidency University in College Street area, demanding the arrest of the masterminds behind the alleged irregularities in the two exams.The agitating students held placards and demanded action against the National Testing Agency, which organised the medical entrance examination, and called for the resignation ... Read more

NEW DELHI: The “top leadership” of the National Testing Agency is under the scanner over alleged irregularities in competitive exams NEET and NET, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Saturday even as he denied any paper leak in the CSIR-UGC NET, which was postponed a day back. The minister said he is the custodian of students’ interests and has to take that into account before taking any step.Amid a raging row over irregularities in the medical entrance exam NEET, Pradhan had said earlier this week that he cannot jeopardise the careers of the lakhs of candidates who cleared the ... Read more

NEW DELHI: The uproar over alleged irregularities in the NEET medical entrance exam intensified on Thursday. Many student groups protested, and the opposition criticized the government, claiming that the leaked papers were reminiscent of the Vyapam scam. They also argued that the future of exam candidates is being jeopardized. The cancellation of the UGC-NET exam, amidst the NEET controversy, raised doubts about the National Testing Agency’s ability to handle larger exams.The Ministry of Education said it is waiting for a report of Bihar Police’s Economic Offences Unit on alleged irregularities in conduct of NEET in Patna and will take further ... Read more