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Top officials of the Health and Education Ministries, National Testing Agency and National Medical Commission volition little a parliamentary sheet connected Wednesday (June 10, 2026) implicit the behaviour of the NEET-UG re-examination connected June 21.
The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee connected Health and Family Welfare has summoned the secretaries of Higher Education and Health, too apical officials of the NTA and NMC, to little the sheet connected the NEET re-exam.
This is the 3rd parliamentary sheet earlier whom the apical officials of the Ministries and NTA (National Testing Agency) and NMC (National Medical Commission) are appearing.
Top officials of the Union Health and Education Ministries, arsenic good arsenic of NTA and NMC, person already appeared earlier the Parliamentary Committees connected Education and the Committee connected Government Assurances, and told them that their implicit absorption for present was to clasp the June 21 NEET-UG re-test successful pen-paper format.
CBI Director Praveen Sood has besides appeared earlier a parliamentary sheet astir the advancement made successful the probe into the NEET-UG insubstantial leak case and the steps being taken to apprehension each those down the insubstantial leakage.
The summoning of officials connected June 10 comes successful the aftermath of the cancellation of the NEET-UG exam held connected May 3 pursuing reports of a insubstantial leak.
Some students person besides committed termination aft the exam cancellation, and determination are increasing concerns among the pupil assemblage implicit the re-examination of the NEET exam.
The Parliamentary Committee connected Health, which looks into the functioning of the Union Health Ministry, volition present question the officials connected the introspection and its conduct.
The sheet volition perceive the views of the Secretary, Department of Health and Family Welfare (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare) and the Secretary, Department of Higher Education (Ministry of Education), on with elder officers of NMC and NTA connected ‘Conduct of NEET examinations nether NMC Act, 2019’.
Their deposition earlier the sheet comes arsenic portion of a elaborate introspection of the taxable 'Organizational Structure, Mandate and Functional Proficiency of Regulatory Institutions pertaining to Ministry of Health and Family Welfare'.
The Parliamentary Committee connected Health volition conscionable connected June 10 day successful the Parliament House Annexe.
The Parliamentary Committee for Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports, headed by Congress subordinate Digvijaya Singh, has already asked the NTA to specify what constitutes a "paper leak" successful its explanation and whether immoderate insubstantial leaks person occurred successful exams it conducted since 2018, sources said.
The panel's questionnaire follows NTA officials' quality earlier it past week, wherever they contended that determination was nary insubstantial leak from their system, claiming that immoderate questions from a conjecture insubstantial were successful circulation, sources said.
The Digvijay Singh-led sheet is looking into the NEET insubstantial leak contented and the CBSE on-screen marking strategy (OSM) row, having summoned apical authorities officials, including those from the NTA and CBSE.
The committee has sought written answers from the Central Board of Secondary Education and the NTA connected the issues of the OSM strategy and the NEET exam, respectively.
The sheet asked the NTA whether it conducted immoderate enquiry into the allegations of irregularities successful the NEET-UG 2024 insubstantial (outside of the CBI investigations).
