NEET-UG re-exam: Parliamentary panel to question NTA, Health and Education officials

Protesters demand to ban the National Testing Agency (NTA) over NEET paper leak. FILE PIC

Top officials of the Health and Education ministries, National Testing Agency (NTA), and National Medical Commission (NMC), will brief a parliamentary panel on Wednesday over the conduct of the NEET-UG re-examination.

The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare has summoned the secretaries of Higher Education and Health, besides top officials of the NTA, and NMC, to brief the panel on the NEET re-exam.

The summoning of officials on June 10 comes in the wake of the cancellation of the NEET-UG exam held on May 3 following reports of a paper leak. The NTA recently announced June 21 as the date for the retest of NEET UG 2026.

Some students have also committed suicide after the exam cancellation, and there are growing concerns among the student community over the re-examination of the NEET exam.

The Parliamentary Committee on Health will now question the officials on the examination and its conduct.

The panel's questionnaire follows NTA officials' appearance before it last week, where they contended that there was no paper leak from their system, claiming that some questions from a guess paper were in circulation, sources said.

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