Three parliamentary panels.
One broken exam.
And a system still explaining how India's biggest medical entrance test leaked — not once, but twice.
On Thursday, the Health Ministry's own Standing Committee — led by Ram Gopal Yadav — became the third parliamentary body to grill officials over NEET-UG 2026.
NTA representatives showed up. So did outside experts.
The panel's verdict?
Talk is over. Put it in writing.
Here's why this exam keeps landing back in Parliament.
NEET-UG was first held on May 3.
Questions leaked — allegedly through guess papers circulating in coaching hubs like Sikar, Rajasthan.
The government scrapped the whole thing.
Re-conducted it on June 21.
The fallout since then:
🕵️ CBI has arrested 13 people — all private individuals, no NTA staff implicated
👨🏫 Three of them were teachers hired by the NTA itself to set the papers
📋 A separate CBI report on systemic weaknesses is still pending
This isn't the first time NTA officials have been summoned.
The Education Committee did it. The Government Assurances Committee did it.
Now the Health Committee wants its own written account — on structural fixes, not just verbal reassurance.
And there's already a blueprint on the table.
Around 70% of the short-term fixes from the Radhakrishnan reform report have reportedly been rolled out.
The bigger swing: NEET may go fully computer-based from 2027, killing the paper trail that made this leak possible in the first place.
A "One Nation, One Entrance Test" pitch, complete with an AI-driven testing system called SITAI, was even presented to the panel.
The ambition is there.
The question Parliament is really asking is simpler.
Can an agency that leaked its own exam twice be trusted to redesign itself before the next batch of 24 lakh students shows up.
That's all for now!
