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The National Testing Agency (NTA) has termed arsenic fake a video being circulated connected societal media claiming that the NEET-UG 2026 insubstantial was leaked.
In a connection connected X, the bureau said the exam was conducted successfully nether broad information and surveillance.
"NTA's attraction has been drawn to a fabricated video being circulated connected societal media regarding NEET (UG) 2026. The video is fake and the claims it makes are false," the connection said.
"The video is FAKE and the claims it makes are false," it said.
The bureau said manufacturing and deliberately circulating specified misinformation to defraud oregon alarm students was a "serious offence." "NTA, with the enactment of I4C and law-enforcement agencies, is taking enactment against those liable for originating this content," the bureau said.
The NTA appealed to students, parents and the nationalist to trust lone connected the authoritative website and the agency's verified societal media handles for accusation and not to amplify specified material.
"Our 20 lakh-plus aspirants merit a calm and just process," it said.
More than 20 lakh aesculapian aspirants took a 2nd changeable astatine the NEET re-exam connected Sunday (June 21, 2026) aft the archetypal trial was cancelled owed to insubstantial leaks, an contented that became a blistery murphy for the authorities and triggered a fashionable protestation movement.
Abhishek Singh, the Director General of the National Testing Agency (NTA), which has been receiving flak pursuing the insubstantial leak, said a "whole-of-government" attack helped it to behaviour the mammoth workout successful grounds time.
In a statement, NTA said much than 20 lakh candidates appeared for the NEET (UG) 2026 re-examination crossed 5,440 centres successful India and 14 centres abroad. The exam was conducted successful 13 languages, including Hindi and English.
"This was not the NTA acting alone. It was Team Bharat - a concatenation of radical crossed the state who showed up truthful that, for each candidate, the lone happening that mattered that greeting was the insubstantial successful beforehand of them," the bureau said.
"In all, astir 7 lakh officials — constabulary teams, observers and introspection unit — were mobilised crossed India to behaviour this examination, and it was done successful a grounds 37 days. NTA is particularly grateful to the experts from world institutions crossed the state who gave their idiosyncratic clip to assistance hole aggregate sets of question papers," the NTA said.
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan reviewed arrangements for the creaseless behaviour of the re-examination astatine the NTA office successful Delhi's Okhla.
"NTA apprised the Minister of the logistical and method arrangements enactment successful spot for the businesslike and transparent behaviour of the examination," the Ministry of Education said.
The NTA said extended arrangements were made for each candidates, including much than 10,000 Persons with Disabilities.
"Special arrangements were enactment successful spot for astir 81 candidates with aesculapian conditions, among them a kid who had been successful a roadworthy accident, and a kid undergoing chemotherapy, who were determined not to miss an exam they had prepared for years," it said.
The bureau said Aadhaar-based biometric and look authentication, CCTV surveillance, jammers and two-layer frisking with the enactment of authorities constabulary were deployed astatine introspection centres.
"Command and power centres for CCTV monitoring were established astatine the nationalist level - astatine the NTA and astatine the Ministry of Education, astatine 34 Centrally Funded Institutions of the Department of Higher Education, successful each State, and astatine District Collectorates," it said.
"There were immoderate insignificant reports regarding radical coming with incorrect admit cards, radical coming with immoderate forged admit cards astatine a fewer places; impersonation cases were besides recovered out," NTA DG Abhishek Singh said.
"At a fewer places, idiosyncratic was trying to instrumentality a mobile phone; enactment has been taken connected that due to the fact that that's the intent of putting frisking, erstwhile you enactment CCTV cameras, erstwhile you enactment handheld metallic detectors, to not let immoderate unfair means... and determination were a fewer radical who were trying to bash that, but they were not capable to," helium said.
While a probe is underway into the alleged insubstantial leak, the recently formed Cockroach Janta Party, led by Abhijeet Dipke, which started arsenic an online campaign, has been holding protests successful the country, demanding the Education Minister's resignation.
The NTA said the behaviour of the exam drew connected the enactment of CAPF and respective cardinal Ministries.
