New Delhi: The government on Friday told the Supreme Court that the PM is "personally supervising" the process for the entrance examination for undergraduate medical courses that would be reconducted next month after a question paper leak.Solicitor general Tushar Mehta stressed the seriousness of the government in handling the issue, as the court expressed concern over the "adhocism" of NTA that conducts the examination and insisted on fixing accountability of those in the system responsible for lapses."The real problem won't stop till actual accountability is fixed," said a top court bench of justices PS Narasimha and Alok Aradhe, hearing a clutch of petitions seeking to disband NTA following the cancellation of NEET-UG 2026 due to leak of question papers. "Not in terms of so and so will be liable, it will be effective when we know which individual shoulders the responsibility. Unless you identify the specific duty bearers, it will be difficult," justice Narasimha verbally remarked.The judge added "the problem is that most institutions are ad hoc. It's a phenomenon that is everywhere in the country. It's not the individual who has the capability but the institution".The bench observed that NTA ought to "learn" from other bodies like the UPSC which conduct large-scale competitive exams without any paper leak. The bench asked the central government to file an affidavit indicating the method through which an "institutional memory of continuity" can be created through employment of specialised personnel so that NTA will have the physical and intellectual wherewithal to conduct the exams in future without any blemish.Appearing on behalf of the Centre, Mehta apprised the bench that following last year's controversy, a detailed scrutiny had been undertaken of the entire examination chain, from the printing press to the point where a candidate receives the question paper. He said fresh vulnerabilities had been identified during the latest examination cycle and corrective mechanisms had been devised.Mehta added it would "not be appropriate" to place certain security-related steps in the public domain, though the committee had already identified the relevant areas and the reforms would be implemented before the next examination.As directed by the bench at the last hearing, K Radhakrishnan, the head of the monitoring committee constituted by the top court in 2024 to suggest recommendations to strengthen NEET, was present to assist the court. The bench asked him as to how the current controversy could arise despite reforms and recommendations suggested by the committee. It asked him about how much monitoring has taken place.Radhakrishnan apprised the bench that the committee had submitted 35 long-term recommendations and around 60 short-term suggestions, most of which had already been implemented. He added that the reforms had largely yielded positive results in NEET-PG 2025, which was conducted "mostly satisfactorily" except for some issues such as power outages.Justice Narasimha pressed him on whether the panel had contemplated the kind of failures now being alleged. In response, Radhakrishnan submitted that the committee's chief concern at the time had been preventing tampering of question papers. He assured that the vulnerabilities exposed this year had been addressed for the proposed re-NEET scheduled for June.