New Delhi, June 20
More than two dozen students from different universities and members of various student outfits were detained on Thursday while they were protesting against the cancellation of the UGC-NET examination and irregularities in the NEET. The students were detained from outside the Ministry of Education as well as Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s residence here in central Delhi.
A large number of students, including members of political outfits such as the Students’ Federation of India (SFI), All India Students Association (AISA), Democratic Students’ Front (DSF), Krantikari Yuva Sangathan (KYS), and Congress-affiliated NSUI participated in the protest. The students gathered outside the Education Ministry and Pradhan’s residence demanding a ban on the National Testing Agency (NTA), the body which conducts the examination, and a probe into the alleged paper leak.
The Union Education Ministry on Wednesday night ordered the cancellation of UGC-NET following inputs about the exam’s integrity being compromised.
“We have seen massive discrepancies on the result of NEET-UG declared on June 4. NEET aspirants have been demanding a re-exam. However, the NTA and the MoE has not responded to their demands.
“Now the UGC NET examination has been cancelled due to paper leak…NTA has failed students time and again. We demand a complete scrapping of the NTA,” AISA unit of JNU said in a statement.
