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Protests had raged crossed the federation implicit the NEET-UG insubstantial leak case. (Express File Photo)
The Centre has sought a three-week hold from the Supreme Court for a committee acceptable up by the Ministry of Education to taxable its study connected the National Testing Agency (NTA) and the introspection process successful the aftermath of alleged irregularities successful the behaviour of the NEET-UG exam.
The committee chaired by erstwhile ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan was constituted successful June with the task of submitting its study to the Ministry successful 2 months. When it formed the seven-member committee, the Ministry had said that the sheet would marque recommendations connected 3 aspects — betterment successful the mechanics of the introspection process, betterment successful information information protocol, and the operation and functioning of the NTA.
In an bid successful August, the Supreme Court said that successful summation to the tasks already entrusted to it by the Centre, the committee would besides look into issues of introspection information and administration, probe and suggest precocious information information protocols, including encryption and unafraid information transmission methods to support introspection materials from unauthorised entree and imaginable leaks, and reappraisal and urge updates to the policies and Standard Operating Procedures of NTA to align with champion practices. Considering the expanded ambit of the committee, the Supreme Court extended the deadline for the committee to taxable its study to the Ministry of Education from the archetypal deadline of August 22 to September 30.
The Centre has present sought clip till October 21 for the committee to taxable its report. In its exertion earlier the court, the Centre has said that the committee has prepared a “comprehensive archetypal draft” of its report, but the draught needs much betterment “to efficaciously pass the essence of each the deliberations and consultations and bring retired a robust road-map for conducting aboriginal nationalist entranceway tests”.
In its application, the Centre has besides said that the committee has had 22 meetings truthful acold to measure the existent challenges and complexities successful conducting “high-stake examinations”, imaginable risks, and information measures progressive successful the process. For this, the committee has held consultations with exam conducting agencies, authorities governments, police, regulatory bodies, academicians, students, exertion solution advisors, and planetary investigating experts. It had besides sought suggestions online, and received 37,144 responses from students, guardians, academicians, and experts done the MyGov portal.
After a contention implicit an alleged NEET-UG insubstantial leak, and a retest for 1563 candidates who were fixed ‘grace marks’ for ‘loss of time’ successful the NEET-UG exam held successful May, 3 different nationalist exams – UGC-NET, CSIR-UGC NET, and NEET-PG – were either cancelled oregon postponed.
In its bid successful August, the Supreme Court had said that determination was nary systemic leak of NEET-UG question papers which would warrant the cancellation of the examination. It had added that however the NTA had organised the exam this twelvemonth “gives emergence to superior concerns”.
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