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Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan connected Wednesday (May 20, 2026) chaired reappraisal meetings with officials of “Central information and quality agencies” to place vulnerabilities and guarantee timely preventive and corrective measures, with preparations underway to behaviour the re-examination of NEET (UG) 2026, which was cancelled earlier this period aft a insubstantial leak.
On Wednesday (May 20, 2026), the Education Minister besides chaired meetings with representatives of large societal media platforms Meta, Google, and Telegram, with whom authorities officials raised “serious concerns” astir the “growing dispersed of misinformation related to competitory examinations” that see “fake insubstantial leak claims”, “clickbait content”, and “unverified accusation that triggers panic, anxiety, and disorder among students and parents”.
A connection from the Education Ministry said Mr. Pradhan called for a “focused crackdown” connected specified societal media networks, including “proactive identification, blocking and takedown of channels spreading fake information, propaganda and panic earlier examinations”. The Minister stressed that “safeguarding students from misleading narratives and maintaining nationalist assurance successful the introspection process remains a apical precedence for the government”.
The meetings connected Wednesday (May 20, 2026) were attended by elder officials of the Education Ministry and the Director General of the National Testing Agency, which has been astatine the centre of the governmental firestorm that has erupted since quality of the NEET(UG) 2026 insubstantial leak became public.
In the gathering with societal media level representatives, authorities officials noted that respective channels became “highly active” connected societal media up of the exams, “particularly done Telegram channels and anonymous online groups”. The authorities officials besides cited “inputs shared by quality agencies” to emblem “multiple suspicious channels that are being operated done a constricted acceptable of telephone numbers, indicating coordinated and organised activity”.
The officials said “many specified links redirect users to automated bots and fake groups designed to amplify misinformation”.
These meetings travel a time aft the Education Minister held a akin reappraisal gathering connected Tuesday (May 19, 2026), directing each authorities to guarantee the “fool-proof” behaviour of the re-examination, which is scheduled for June 21. Mr. Pradhan has called for District Magistrates and Superintendents of Police to support coordinating for this.
