NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live Updates: Cancellation of exam would be counterproductive, NTA tells Supreme Court
NEET-UG 2024 had been compromised. The top court directed the National Testing Agency (NTA), that conducts the exam, and the Union government to submit comprehensive affidavits, and requested a status update from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) by July 10 regarding the NEET UG examination.In an affidavit submitted on July 10, the Union government said that the Ministry of Education had requested IIT Madras to conduct comprehensive data analytics of the results of NEET-UG 2024 candidates, in compliance with the Supreme Court's directives.
The Centre informed the Supreme Court that there was no evidence of widespread cheating or specific groups of candidates unfairly benefiting from abnormal scores in NEET-UG 2024. The NTA submitted a separate affidavit to the Supreme Court.
They analyzed marks distribution at national, state, city, and centre levels for NEET-UG 2024.NEET-UG 2024 was taken by 23.33 lakh students on May 5 across 4,750 centres in 571 cities, including 14 cities overseas. Conducted by the NTA, NEET-UG is the entrance test for admissions to MBBS, BDS, AYUSH, and other related courses in government and private institutions nationwide.NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested two more accused from Patna in connection with the NEET-UG paper leak case on July 10.
Eleven accused have been arrested in the paper leak case, so far. NEET UG 2024 Hearing Live: The NTA told the court in its affidavit that the incident of the alleged paper leak in Patna is under investigation by the CBI.“The cancellation of the entire examination on the basis of the aforesaid factor, would be hugely counterproductive and significantly harmful to the larger public interest, especially to the
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