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NEW DELHI: The Centre connected Friday informed Supreme Court that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is personally supervising the re-examination process of National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) UG aft the caller insubstantial leak."Prime curate is personally supervising truthful that determination is nary lacunae," Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told Supreme Court during the proceeding connected NEET insubstantial leak, quality bureau PTI reported."Some caller mechanisms person been enactment successful spot for NEET-UG scheduled for June 21," the Centre said.The Supreme Court seat asked the Centre to clasp accountibility and said: "It is really precise traumatic if thing similar this happens.
We should not disappoint our youngsters."On this the Centre said, "We are dealing with youths, the authorities is earnestly acrophobic astir their concerns." Meanwhile the National Testing Agency (NTA) told the Supreme Court that it has introduced sweeping structural and information reforms successful the aftermath of the NEET-UG 2026 insubstantial leak contention and the cancellation of the examination, quality bureau ANI reported.
The submissions came successful effect to petitions filed by the Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA) and the United Doctors Front (UDF), which sought a broad overhaul of the introspection assemblage implicit alleged irregularities successful the behaviour of NEET-UG 2026.In an affidavit earlier the apex court, the NTA said a High-Powered Steering Committee (HPSC), during a gathering connected April 17, 2026, reviewed preparations for NEET-UG 2026 and projected a bid of safeguards covering pre-exam, during-exam and post-exam stages.The measures included mandatory CCTV checks and retention of footage for a minimum of 90 days, mock drills astatine introspection centres, weather-related contingency plans, verification of powerfulness backup systems, exigency aesculapian arrangements, and elaborate inspections of centres successful the week earlier the exam.The committee besides recommended post-examination forensic investigation of CCTV footage to place suspicious enactment oregon irregularities that whitethorn not beryllium detected successful existent time.The NTA further informed the tribunal that the HPSC would conscionable again aft NEET-UG 2026 to decide, successful consultation with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, whether aboriginal NEET examinations should displacement to Computer-Based Test (CBT) mode oregon proceed successful the existing Pen-and-Paper Test (PPT) format.According to the affidavit, respective recommendations made by the High-Level Committee of Experts (HLCE) person already been implemented, portion others are successful precocious stages of execution.As portion of the restructuring exercise, the NTA said 16 senior-level posts, including Director and Joint Director positions, person been created wrong the organisation. Two Joint Secretary-rank officers person been appointed arsenic Additional Director Generals to oversee exertion operations and introspection security, portion a Secretary-level serviceman took complaint arsenic Director General of the NTA successful March 2026.The bureau besides said experts from institutions specified arsenic IITs, UGC, CBSE, KVS and IGNOU person been brought successful to fortify introspection absorption and information systems.On coordination mechanisms, the NTA told the tribunal that State-Level Coordination Committees (SLCCs) and District-Level Coordination Committees (DLCCs) person been formed nationwide to guarantee unafraid behaviour of examinations.The affidavit stated that by the clip NEET-UG 2026 was held connected May 3, 2026, arsenic galore arsenic 18 SLCCs and 621 DLCCs had been operationalised. These panels comprise officials from the administration, police, quality agencies, NIC and NTA to bolster surveillance and coordination during examinations.
