Student organizations affiliated with INDIA bloc partners will stage a protest at Jantar Mantar on March 26 against issues such as paper leaks, the new UGC draft, the restoration of student body elections, and social justice in the education sector, among other concerns. The announcement was made on Saturday at a joint press conference here.
Under the new law, strict action can now be taken against gang members involved in cheating and leaking examination papers.
Fresh date of this examination will be notified at the earliest, the Union Health Ministry said in a statement.
The law aims to prevent the use of 'unfair means' in job examinations and common entrance tests like NEET-UG and UGC-NET.
Taking a dig at BJP on social media site X on Friday, he said that this is the identity of 'BJP', work for liars and salute to liars.
Alleging paper leaks in both NEET-UG and UGC-NET, Gandhi demanded that strict action should be taken against the culprits at the earliest.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge asked the PM when the NEET-UG examination would be cancelled.
Six-time MLA from Bikaner region and senior Cabinet Minister Bulaki Das Kalla currently holds key portfolios, including Education (Primary and Secondary), Art, Literature, Culture and Archaeology.
In West Bengal the teachers' recruitment irregularities scam involving crores of rupees has gained such negative popularity that it has overshadowed the fact that though not on a massive scale but incidents of paper leaks had been part of the examination scams.
The back-to-back exam paper leak cases seem to have become a pain in the neck for the Congress government in Rajasthan as its own ministers have now questioned the inability of the government to hold the exams successfully.
