Serious questions on integrity of NTA, how NEET is conducted: Congress
Congress on Sunday said there are «serious questions» on the integrity of the National Testing Agency and the manner in which NEET is designed and administered. The opposition party hoped that when the new Standing Committees of Parliament gets constituted, it would take up an in-depth review of the NEET, NTA and NCERT.
«I was a member of Parliament's Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare between 2014 and 2019 and recall broad support for NEET. But there were MPs, especially from Tamil Nadu, who had raised concerns that NEET would privilege CBSE students and would disadvantage youth coming from non-CBSE schools,» Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said in a post on X.
«I do think now that this CBSE issue needs proper analysis. Is NEET discriminatory? Are students from poorer backgrounds being denied opportunities? Other states like Maharashtra also have expressed grave doubts on NEET,» he said.
There are also serious questions on the integrity of the National Testing Agency itself and the manner in which NEET is designed and administered, he said.
The NCERT itself has lost all professionalism in the last decade, Ramesh claimed.
«Hopefully the new Standing Committee(s) when they get constituted will take up an in-depth review of NEET, NTA and NCERT. This should receive the highest priority,» he said.
The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (UG), or NEET, was held on May 5 across 4,750
