Over the past five years, 28 students have been caught using unfair means during the NEET examination for admission to undergraduate medical programmes, according to the National Testing Agency. Parents and students are now questioning the need for intrusive and humiliating frisking at examination centres.
The NTA caught seven students using unfair means at National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET-UG) centres this year. That is in addition to seven students caught in 2022, five cases each in 2020 and 2021, and four cases in 2019, according to the NTA’s response to a Right to Information query posed by activist Chandrashekhar Gaur.
This year alone, more than 20 lakh students wrote the examination, competing for almost one lakh MBBS seats.
