The Supreme Court on Friday expanded the remit of the Centre-appointed seven-member expert panel headed by former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief K Radhakrishnan constituted to review the functioning of the National Testing Agency (NTA) and recommend exam reforms.A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra gave the detailed reasons for their July 23 order of not scrapping the controversy-ridden NEET-UG 24 examination.
The bench was also critical of the conduct of the NTA which holds the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET).
It flagged multiple lapses on the part of NTA like the security breach at an examination centre in Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh where the rear door of the strongroom was opened and unauthorised people were permitted to access the question papers, transportation of question papers by e-rickshaws and distribution of wrong set of question papers among the candidates.
