New Delhi: The National Testing Agency (NTA) will declare results of National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG 2024) in accordance with the city and the centre of examination on July 20.
The NTA decided to declare the city-wise and centre-wise results following the direction of the Supreme Court on Friday. The apex court, however, told the NTA to keep identity of the students masked. The court will hear the matter on Monday again.
Solicitor general Tushar Mehta had earlier pleaded in the court that exam centres should not be revealed, but the court refused to entertain it saying that centre-wise results would reveal the pattern of the marks.
Chief justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud said that the paper leak in Patna and Hazaribagh is an acknowledged fact, as the paper was available before the exam. “…let us see centre-wise what is the marks pattern. In the end of it if petitioners fail, we will have satisfaction,” he remarked.
The NTA will resume counselling for medical students for their admission in undergraduate courses in medical colleges on July 24. Earlier Friday, the apex court had said any order for conducting the NEET-UG 2024 afresh has to be on the concrete footing that the sanctity of the entire exam was affected.
The bench had also asked the petitioners seeking cancellation, re-test and a court-monitored probe into the alleged irregularities in the May 5 exam to show that the paper leak was “systemic” and affected the entire examination, warranting cancellation.
