Team Blitz India
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on June 18 told the Centre and National Testing Agency (NTA) that if there is any negligence in conducting the NEET-UG, 2024 exam, it should be thoroughly dealt with.
“If there is 0.001 per cent negligence on the part of anyone, it should be thoroughly dealt with. All these matters ought not to be treated as adversarial litigation,” observed a vacation bench of Justices VikramNath and SVN Bhatti.
The bench told counsels appearing for Centre and NTAthat children have prepared for the exams and ‘we cannot forget their labour’ for preparing for these exams.It told the counsel of NTAthat as an agency which is conducting the examination, it must ‘act fair’.
“If there is a mistake, say yes, this is a mistake, and this is the action we are going to take. At least that inspires confidence in your performance,” the top court told NTA while adding that it expects timely action from them.
Aspirants have raised the issue of leakage of the question paper, awarding compensatory marks and anomalies in the question of National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Under Graduate (NEET-UG) 2024.
The apex court, while hearing fresh petitions relating to alleged paper leaks and malpractices in the NEET-UG, 2024 exam on May 5 this year, issued notices and sought a response fromNTA within two weeks.
