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The Progressive Democratic Students’ Union (PDSU) connected Tuesday launched a scathing onslaught connected the Union Ministry of Education and the National Testing Agency (NTA), demanding the contiguous resignation of the Union Education Minister pursuing cancellation of the NEET-UG 2026 introspection owed to insubstantial leak allegations.
The pupil assemblage placed respective demands earlier the Centre, and sought the resignation of the Union Education Minister for repeated lapses.
The NTA officially scrapped the aesculapian entranceway trial held connected May 3, affecting implicit 23 lakh aspirants nationwide. This follows a akin situation past year, starring pupil bodies to question the government’s quality to behaviour a foolproof national-level examination.
Speaking to the media connected Tuesday, PDSO State wide caput A. Suresh said that the repeated leaks are a monumental nonaccomplishment of the administrative machinery. He noted that preliminary investigations successful Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, and Maharashtra person confirmed that a conjecture insubstantial circulated connected societal media anterior to the exam matched implicit 100 questions successful the existent question paper.
The sanctity of the nationalist introspection syste has been compromised yet again. It is reported that leaked papers were sold for prices ranging betwixt ₹.30,000 to ₹20 lakh.
“This is not conscionable a leak; it is simply a well-organised syndicate operating nether the chemoreceptor of the NTA”, Mr. Suresh alleged.
The PDSO highlighted the the recurring scams person a terrible intelligence and fiscal toll connected students from marginalised backgrounds. He stated that lakhs of mediocre and middle-class students walk their families’ hard-earned savings connected coaching and preparation, and specified systemic negligence pushes them into heavy intelligence distress.
