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NEW DELHI: The Centre connected Tuesday ordered a impermanent regularisation connected entree to messaging level Telegram up of the NEET (UG) 2026 re-examination, citing concerns implicit the dispersed of misleading contented related to exam integrity.
The National Testing Agency (NTA) welcomed the move, alleging that definite features of the app had been exploited to make fabricated "paper leak" grounds aft examinations were conducted."The National Testing Agency (NTA) welcomes the directions issued contiguous successful respect of the Telegram level successful India," it said successful a statement."The directions, issued connected recommendations of NTA are calibrated and bounded successful time: a absorption nether Section 69 A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, restricting entree to the Telegram level successful India for a defined and constricted play ending 22 June 2026, covering the time of the NEET (UG) 2026 re-examination and its contiguous aftermath; and a absorption requiring the level to disable, successful India, the message-oditing diagnostic successful respect of messages already posted, for a defined play ending 30 June 2026, addressing the circumstantial structural diagnostic done which the level has been utilized to fabricate after-the-event "paper leak" grounds successful respect of nationalist examinations," it added.Union location caput Govind Mohan connected Monday chaired a high-level reappraisal gathering connected preparations for the NEET-UG 2026 re-examination, stressing the request for enhanced security, transparency and campaigner convenience successful the aftermath of the insubstantial leak controversy. During the meeting, Mohan directed authorities governments, Union territories and cardinal agencies to instrumentality stringent information measures to guarantee the re-exam is conducted without immoderate lapses.
He underscored a zero-tolerance attack to irregularities, peculiarly aft concerns that prompted authorities to bid a re-test astatine prime centres.The NTA has scheduled the NEET-UG 2026 re-examination for June 21 aft cancelling the May 3 trial implicit allegations of a question insubstantial leak. Around 2.28 cardinal candidates had appeared for the exam astatine much than 5,000 centres nationwide, and the determination to scrap the trial came arsenic a large setback for galore aspirants.
