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Before being appointed NTA main successful June past year, Singh was Additional Secretary successful the Department of Food and Public Distribution nether the Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution. (PTI/ File photo)
Subodh Kumar Singh, a 1997-batch Chhattisgarh cadre IAS officer, who was removed from the station of National Testing Agency (NTA) Director General successful June pursuing alleged irregularities successful the behaviour of NEET-UG and UGC-NET exams, was appointed arsenic Additional Secretary and Financial Advisor, Ministry of Steel connected Saturday.
In June this year, Singh was enactment connected “compulsory wait” successful the Department of Personnel and Training by the Centre, which had besides formed a committee headed by erstwhile ISRO president K Radhakrishnan to urge reforms successful investigating procedures and information information protocols, and to reappraisal the operation and functioning of the NTA.
Before being appointed NTA main successful June past year, Singh was Additional Secretary successful the Department of Food and Public Distribution nether the Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
The Union Education Ministry had successful June this twelvemonth handed implicit the probe of the alleged irregularities successful the behaviour of NEET-UG exam to the CBI. The cardinal bureau had said earlier this period that 144 candidates, who had allegedly paid to get NEET-UG papers leaked and solved hours earlier they were to instrumentality the exam, person been identified.
Amid the uproar implicit the allegations of irregularities successful NEET-UG, 3 different exams — UGC-NET, CSIR-UGC NET, and NEET PG — were either cancelled oregon postponed.
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