Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has asserted that the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education has not given a 'clean chit' to Prime Minister Narendra Modi or the government's education system over the NEET controversy.
In a post on X, citing committee chairman Digvijaya Singh, Ramesh said the panel was informed that the Prime Minister is personally monitoring the proposed NEET re-examination, but maintained that the Modi government's handling of exam administration and alleged paper leaks has severely eroded public trust.
The Standing Committee on Education has given no clean chit to the Prime Minister or his 'system' and Shri Digvijaya Singh did not express his confidence in them.
He accused the government's education system of incompetence and failure in conducting and safeguarding major examinations.
The NTA is pulled in, and the Committee on Education underscored the need for a completely transparent and fair conduct of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), stating that students ultimately bear the consequences whenever there are failures in the examination system.
