A meeting was held by the High-Level Committee of the Ministry of Education at the IIT Delhi campus, to investigate matters of the National Testing Agency (NTA) amid mounting protests against the cancellation of NEET UG 2024. The group was chaired by K Radhakrishnan, the former chairman of ISRO and chairman of BoG at IIT Kanpur.
The high-level committee appointed by the Union Education Ministry to assess the National Testing Agency's operations, held a meeting yesterday #NEET #NTA #NEET2024 #UGCNET2024 @EduMinOfIndia @NTA_Exams pic.twitter.com/hTYjlYNFSk— VYGR News (@Vygrofficial) June 25, 2024
The High-level Committee's Primary Objectives
- The Education Ministry's Committee on Exam Reforms has decided to interact with parents and students to gain insight into their worries and difficulties with the testing process. According to the experts, the committee's primary objective is to gather suggestions from parents and students. During their first meeting on Monday, the seven-member Committee also decided to gather the suggestions they had received over the following two weeks.
"The first priority for us is to elicit from the students and parents in the country their concerns and suggestions. We are going to engage with them as far as possible in person, or through electronic media. And in the next fortnight, we would like to consolidate this," - Committee's Chairman K. Radhakrishnan.
- Radhakrishnan went on to say that next on the Committee's priority list is to rapidly construct a reliable system for initiating the tests. They are also considering the future, particularly the development of a strong, impenetrable, error-free, and stress-free system that will reduce challenges and anxiety for students while allowing for adequate adaptability in the future of the country.
Officials stated that the committee was informed about NTA's current entrance test procedure, its technological proficiency, and recent instances of abnormalities seen in the NEET-UG and UGC-NET. The panel was established at a time when the NTA is being scrutinized for claimed irregularities in the way this year's National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test for Undergraduate Programs (NEET-UG) was conducted, the University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) was cancelled because a paper leak appeared on the darknet, and the CSIR-UGC-NET was postponed.
The Committee's Members
On Saturday, the committee was established by the Ministry of Education. Dr Randeep Guleria, the former director of AIIMS; Professor B J Rao, the vice-chancellor of the Central University of Hyderabad; Professor Ramamurthy K, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Madras; Professor Aditya Mittal, the Dean of student affairs at IIT Delhi; Govind Jaiswal, the Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Education; and Pankaj Bansal, co-founder of PeopleStrong and board member of Karmayogi Bharat, are among them.
Last week, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan declared that the NTA, which administers these public examinations, will have a high-level group established to examine its operations and organizational structure. He also announced the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024 last week.
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