More than 48 hours after reports of “humiliating frisking’’ at the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET-UG) centres surfaced, officials at the National Testing Agency (NTA) which conducts the exams, remained tight-lipped. NTA officials did not respond to queries by The Hindu on these incidents.
Twenty lakh students took the medical entrance examination for undergraduate courses on May 7 at 4,075 centres across India, barring the 22 centres in Manipur. Reports of frisking have emerged from centres in Kolkata, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu.
Speaking about his ordeal a NEET aspirant from Kolkata tweeted: “The frisking process during NEET-UG, 2023 has subjected me to a level of indignation that I have never suffered before.’’
