New Delhi:
Forty-eight per cent of scholars who had been scheduled to retake the NEET-UG at present didn’t flip up, the Nationwide Testing Company (NTA) mentioned in an announcement. After a Supreme Court docket order, 1,563 college students who got grace marks had been eligible to take the retest at present, the NTA mentioned.
Of the overall, 813 (52 per cent) gave the retest and 750 skipped, exhibits knowledge launched by the NTA this night. The NTA had opened seven examination centres in Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, Meghalaya, and Chandigarh, a Union Territory.
🔴 #JustIn | NEET-UG 2024 retest: Solely 52% (813 out of 1563) college students turned up for the retest at present. pic.twitter.com/JZzsxmDh8c
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Beneath is the record of what number of college students gave the retest, what number of skipped, and the areas.
Chandigarh: 2 eligible, each absent.
Chhattisgarh: 602 eligible, 311 absent, 291 took retest.
Gujarat: 1 eligible, and the scholar turned up.
Haryana: 494 eligible, 207 absent, 287 took retest.
Meghalaya: 464 eligible, 230 absent, 234 took retest.
The retest was held on a day the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a primary info report (FIR) in reference to alleged irregularities within the medical entrance examination NEET-UG held on Might 5. The CBI filed the case following a grievance from the Training Ministry amid protests and litigation by college students for a probe into paper leak claims.
Officers mentioned the ministry alleged within the grievance, now a part of the FIR, that “sure remoted incidents” occurred in a number of states through the conduct of the examination. Giving high precedence to the case, the CBI has fashioned particular groups which are on their strategy to Godhra and Patna, the place instances of query paper leaks have been filed by the police.
The CBI will take over the investigation of the instances filed by the police in Gujarat and Bihar.
Sixty-three candidates had been debarred from everywhere in the nation over malpractices through the NEET-UG, the NTA mentioned. They embody 17 from Bihar, and 30 from Godhra.
The position of officers, if any, linked with the conduct of the examination and likewise into all the gamut of occasions, and the bigger conspiracy may even be beneath the scanner, officers mentioned.
In a separate matter, the Supreme Court docket sought responses from the Centre, the NTA and others on varied petitions, together with these in search of cancellation of the NEET-UG 2024 examination and a court-monitored investigation.
The Supreme Court docket additionally halted proceedings on comparable petitions in varied excessive courts.