A decision taken by the National Testing Agency (NTA) with the approval of the Centre to scrap NEET-UG 2026, upsetting the future of over 22 lakh students nationwide, is diametrically opposite to what they had said and promised in the Supreme Court amid the backlash over the NEET (UG) paper leak in 2024.
Two years ago, the Centre and the NTA had told the top court cancelling the NEET (UG) exam would be a drastic and ill-advised move, jeopardising careers of lakhs of students. They had urged segregation rather than cancellation in 2024, reasoning that students “innocent of wrongdoing should not pay a price for those who are actually found to be involved in irregularities”.
