Education minister Dharmendra Pradhan took moral responsibility for the NEET paper leak and announced that the government is forming a high-level committee to improve the efficiency of the National Testing Agency.
Briefing the media on Thursday, Pradhan assured that those found guilty would not be spared.
"Paper leak is an institutional failure of NTA. We are assuring you that there will be a reform committee and action will be taken," he said.
"The government is forming a high-level committee. Recommendations will be expected from that high-level committee to further improve NTA, its structure, functioning, examination process, transparency, and data security protocol. We are committed to zero-error examination."
Pradhan further said that those found guilty would be severely punished.
"I want to assure everyone that the culprits will dealt with strongly. Be it NTA or anyone from the NTA, those found guilty will punished severely."
Talking about cancelling the UGC-NET exam, Pradhan said, "Soon after it was clear that the UGC-NET question paper on Dark Net matches the original question paper of UGC-NET, we decided to cancel the examination."
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