“Government has taken proactive steps…” UGC chairman M Jagadesh Kumar on NEET exam row

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June 23 said that the has taken proactive steps to protect the interests of the students and to protect the integrity of the examinations conducted by NTA. Following this, he said that the government has also announced an Act to prevent unfair means in Public examinations. "The government has taken proactive steps to protect the interests of the students and to protect the integrity of the examinations conducted by NTA. We now have a new Director General to head the National Testing Agency. The government has also formed a high-level committee headed by Dr K.Radhakrishnan, who is a former chairman of ISRO. This committee consists of experts from different domains...People who are deeply involved with the conduct of the IIT entrance examinations and their reforms are present in this committee. This committee will provide recommendations in two ways- one is the restructuring of NTA and its functioning and then the entire gamut of the processes involved in the conduct of the examination and the data security protocols. All these issues will be looked at by this committee and they will provide the recommendations to ensure that these examinations are conducted fairly transparently and they have credibility...In addition to this the government has also announced the Public Examinations Prevention of Unfair Means Act," UGC Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar. Soon after being entrusted with the probe into the alleged irregularities in the National Eligibility-Cum-Entrance-Test (NEET) (UG) Examination 2024, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered an FIR in the case, sources said on June 23. SIn the early hours of Sunday, the central government entrusted the matter of alleged irregularities in the NEET (UG) Examination 2024 to the CBI for a comprehensive investigation.

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