On Friday, August 2, the National Testing Agency, or NTA, was ordered by the Supreme Court to refrain from doing the same “flip-flops” with regard to the NEET-UG 2024 exam. It stated that such “flip-flops” in a nationwide exam do not benefit the students. Despite a heated debate over paper claims and other abnormalities in the exam, the Supreme Court was announcing its decision with reasons for not canceling the 2024 NEET-UG medical entrance exam.
The Chief Justice of India, DY Chandrachud, led a three-judge panel that stated that the expert committee needed to address the shortcomings in the examination system.
The Supreme Court declared that it had exposed every flaw in the NTA’s structural procedures in its ruling. The Supreme Court declared, “We cannot afford this for the betterment of the students.”
The Supreme Court further stated that in order to prevent another recurrence, the Center needs to address the difficulties that have emerged this year.
Nonetheless, the Supreme Court ruled that the NEET-UG 2024 papers had not been compromised systemically and that the leak was restricted to Patna and Hazaribagh.
In its ruling, the Supreme Court stated that the committee established by the Center would also take into account developing standard operating procedures (SOP) for technological innovations to detect possible vulnerabilities in the cyber security of the exam system, procedures for improved identity verification, and CCTV camera surveillance of exam centers.
In addition, the court issued numerous directives and broadened the mandate of the committee created by the Center, which was led by former ISRO chief K Radhakrishnan, to examine the NTA’s operations and suggest changes to the exams.
It stated that because the panel’s mandate has been broadened, the committee would present its findings by September 30 on different ways to address the examination system’s shortcomings.