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Fear and vexation gripped aesculapian spot aspirants successful Karnataka aft the National Testing Agency (NTA) cancelled the NEET 2026 introspection held connected May 3 and announced a re-examination pursuing the leakage of question papers, throwing the futures of lakhs of students into uncertainty.
This year, astir 1.50 lakh students crossed the State wrote the UGNEET.
Krishi (name changed), said, “This was my 3rd effort astatine NEET. I was truly hoping to get into a assemblage this year. I person fixed this exam 3 years of my life, and with the insubstantial leak, I americium near successful a authorities of hopelessness and anxiousness astir my future, arsenic I americium not definite however good I tin hole for the re-examination.” She urged that agencies acrophobic get to the halfway of this contented and marque definite incidents similar these don’t repeat.
Dhyan, different student, said, “I person sacrificed 2 years for NEET, and this time, the exam went well. There was a anticipation of getting a bully rank. But present the exam has been cancelled. I fearfulness however the re-examination volition go.”
Meanwhile, condemning the NEET cancellation, members of the Youth Congress staged a protestation against the Union authorities astatine Freedom Park successful Bengaluru connected Tuesday evening.
‘Warned successful 2024’
Taking to X, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said, “In 2024 itself, our authorities had placed Karnataka’s concerns connected record: NEET is unfair to agrarian and mediocre students, weakens schoolhouse education, and takes distant the States’ rightful authorization implicit admissions. Today’s cancellation proves that our concerns were real, urgent and rooted successful the interests of students.”
Karnataka Medical Education Minister Sharanprakash Patil termed the cancellation “a sedate injustice to lakhs of aspiring aesculapian students crossed the country.”
“For the past 4 to 5 years, irregularities and controversies successful NEET person been a recurring improvement with nary extremity successful sight,” helium said.
Coaching centres’ role
Dr. Patil alleged that coaching centres successful Rajasthan and Haryana are actively orchestrating question insubstantial leaks to boost their ain estimation and business. “Elements wrong the Union authorities are complicit successful this racket. The Union Minister acrophobic indispensable resign immediately. Strict regulatory enactment should beryllium taken against coaching centres indulging successful specified malpractices,” helium added.
Higher Education Minister M.C. Sudhakar said that it is precocious clip for the Union authorities to taxable an affidavit to the Supreme Court astir its inability to behaviour the NEET exams and let States to behaviour admissions to aesculapian courses astatine their level.
“Our State had already passed a solution regarding the scrapping of NEET. We person been conducting admissions to engineering courses without immoderate specified malpractice. Let the Centre behaviour abstracted tests for All India Quota,” said the Minister. Dr. Sudhakar further stated that Karnataka’s CET is simply a palmy model.
School Education Minister Madhu Bangarappa said repeated loopholes successful the NEET introspection strategy are having a superior interaction connected the intelligence authorities of students. “We are perpetually trying to trim the world and intelligence accent of children astatine the schoolhouse level. However, specified irresponsible decisions of the cardinal authorities are pushing children and parents into a pit of despair,” the Minister stated.
Meanwhile, the Union Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy criticised the State Congress leaders and said, “Let the Karnataka authorities cleanable the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) first. Let the State authorities reply however galore exams they person postponed. Congress has nary morality to question the Centre connected the cancellation of NEET.”
Unions react
Student organisations similar All India Democratic Students Organisation (AIDSO) and All India Save Education Committee (AISEC) besides condemned the cancellation of NEET.
Ajay Kamath, State Secretary, AIDSO Karnataka, demanded the abolition of the National Testing Agency (NTA), which has mislaid the spot of the state by repeatedly failing to behaviour examinations transparently and securely.
“There indispensable beryllium a high-level autarkic judicial enquiry to way down the individuals and the coaching mafia down the insubstantial leak, and the blameworthy indispensable person exemplary punishment,” helium said.
Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishath-Karnataka (ABVP) urged strict and decisive enactment against the “education mafia” threatening the integrity of examinations.
“The determination of the Union authorities to manus implicit the probe into the alleged insubstantial leak and irregularities successful the NEET to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is an due and indispensable step,” it stated.
