The National Testing Agency announced the dates of the UGC-NET exams months after it was cancelled a day after the tests were conducted over alleged paper leaks.
The University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test will now be held between August 21 and September 4 in Computer Based Test (CBT) mode.
The exams are held twice a year. UGC NET was conducted in June in pen and paper mode on June 18 in two shifts.
Centres of the upcoming examination will be notified on ugcnet.nta.ac.in and nta.ac.in 10 days before the exams.
Why were the exams cancelled?
In a notification dated June 19, the Ministry of Education informed that the UGC had received inputs from the National Cyber Crime Threat Analytics that indicated that the “integrity of the examination had been compromised.”
“To ensure the highest level of transparency and sanctity of the examination process, the Ministry of Education, Government of India has decided that the UGC-NET June 2024 Examination be cancelled. A fresh examination shall be conducted, for which information shall be shared separately. Simultaneously, the matter is being handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for thorough investigation in the matter,” the ministry said.
Meanwhile, last month, the Supreme Court refused to entertain a PIL challenging the government’s decision to cancel the UGC-NET examination following an alleged question paper leak.
A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, however, said the dismissal of the PIL does not amount to a decision on the merits of the PIL as it was filed by a lawyer and not by aggrieved students.
“Why are you (lawyer) coming? Let the students come here themselves,” the CJI told the lawyer, adding “while declining the above PIL, we express nothing on merits”.
The bench asked advocate Ujjawal Gaur, who has filed the PIL as a petitioner, to focus on some legal matters and leave such issues for aggrieved persons.
The plea was filed against the decision of the Union Education Ministry and the National Testing Agency to cancel the UGC-NET exam following inputs that its integrity may have been compromised.
With inputs from agencies
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