UGC-NET retest: student organisations stage protest, demand scrapping of NTA
Student organizations protested at the National Testing Agency (NTA) office in Delhi to demand the agency's dissolution following errors in the UGC-NET examination. The NTA has scheduled re-examinations for three subjects, a move students argue imposes unfair mental and financial burdens.
Why it matters
Repeated technical failures in national-level testing agencies threaten the credibility of academic qualification systems and student career trajectories.
Multiple student organisations held protests outside the National Testing Agency (NTA) office in Delhi on Monday, demanding that the agency be scrapped amid irregularities in the University Grants Commission-National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) examination held in June.
On Sunday, the NTA said that it would re-conduct the UGC-NET examination in English, sociology and commerce after finding that the papers had “defects”, which “do not meet the standards of fairness and error-free examination”. The decision followed multiple complaints from candidates about errors in the question papers.
While the English and commerce re-examinations will be held on September 9, the sociology re-examination will be conducted on September 10, the NTA said.
However, the student organisations argued that the re-examination would cause mental and financial distress to students.
The National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), All India Students’ Association (AISA) and Students’ Federation of India (SFI) were among those present at the protest.
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