Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on July 18 ordered the National Testing Agency (NTA) to publish the results of all candidates who took the NEET UG exam. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) D.Y. Chandrachud however said that the marks should be published without revealing the identity of the candidates.
Earlier, the Bench also comprising Justices J.B. Pardiwala and Manoj Misra had underscored that the fact that the sanctity of the exam was compromised was “beyond question”. It however, maintained that the decision to cancel the exam in its entirety would be an “extreme last resort” as it affected the lives of over 23 lakh students.
More than 23.33 lakh students had taken the test on May 5 at 4,750 centres in 571 cities, including in 14 cities overseas. The Centre and the NTA, in their earlier affidavits filed before the apex Court, had said that scrapping the exam would be counterproductive and seriously jeopardise lakhs of honest candidates in the absence of any proof of large-scale breach of confidentiality.
Meanwhile, the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) has issued a notice urging medical colleges to enter their seats on its official portal. The committee will be accepting the seat details from July 20 from the participating institutions for UG counselling 2024 on the MCC portal.
