New Delhi, June 2 (IANS) Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday lauded the efforts of students in unearthing issues that raised questions over the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) paper-evaluation contract and sought the resignation of Union Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan. “The CBSE Chairman and Secretary have been transferred. Justice requires that the Mantri Pradhan be sacked,” posted Jairam Ramesh on X.His post followed the transfer of CBSE chairm…
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New Delhi, June 2 (IANS) Activists of the student organisation, Krantikari Yuva Sangathan (KYS), on Tuesday held a protest at the Union Ministry of Education against the unending saga of repeated failures of the National Testing Agency (NTA), demanding accountability and structural reforms in the country’s examination system. Bhim Kumar, a member of the Delhi State Committee, KYS, claimed that some of the activists were detained by the police and taken to an undisclosed destination.The KYS deman…
New Delhi, June 1 (IANS) In an exclusive interview with IANS, veteran Congress leader, Rajya Sabha Member, and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh launched a scathing attack on the ruling BJP-led government. Addressing the ongoing controversies surrounding national competitive examinations and data integrity, Singh demanded the immediate resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.He asserted that if the Minister fails to step down voluntarily, Prime Minister Nare…
New Delhi, June 1 (IANS) The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports will hold key meetings in the national capital on Monday and Tuesday to discuss several important issues concerning NEET, the National Testing Agency (NTA), CBSE examination reforms, and broader education policy matters.Beginning at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, the Committee will deliberate on issues related to NEET and the NTA, including the ongoing debate over conducting examinations through …
Bhopal, May 30 (IANS) Several senior Congress leaders, including former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh, were detained by police in Bhopal on Saturday while leading a protest march over the alleged NEET paper leak and irregularities in competitive examinations. The Congress and its student wing, the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), had organised the protest at the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) headquarters, from where party leaders and workers attempted to march towar…
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi continued his attack on the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) even as it began a re-evaluation process of Class 12 answer sheets, where some nine lakh scanned copies have reportedly been shared online with students.“Seventeen-year-old Sarthak Sidhant has exposed how CBSE manipulated its own selection process to benefit COEMPT, using CBSE’s own documents,” the Congress leader wrote in a post on X on …
New Delhi, May 28 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday questioned Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi for omitting the fact that the same education technology firm that the Congress leader is criticising was earlier “repeatedly awarded projects by institutions functioning under Congress governments in Telangana and Karnataka”. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) earlier dismissed LoP Rahul Gandhi’s improprie…
Bhubaneswar, May 28 (IANS) Odisha Congress on Wednesday staged a massive protest in Bhubaneswar against the alleged irregularities in the NEET examination and demanded the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. Hundreds of activists led by Chhatra Congress leader Bibhuti Bhushan Mohapatra, under the banner of the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), took out a torchlight rally from the Pradesh Congress Committee office towards the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state head…
New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Wednesday emphatically rejected Lok Sabha Leader of the Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi’s allegations of impropriety over entering into a contract with a particular education technology firm. “It is erroneous, misleading, and not based on facts,” the CBSE posted on social media platform X.“CBSE has followed the General Financial Rules protocols scrupulously in awarding the contract to the agency. CBSE floated the R…
New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), currently investigating the NEET paper leak case, is now also scrutinising the assets of the three accused individuals arrested in connection with the matter. The investigative agency suspects that the accused have acquired multiple properties using funds generated from the paper leak racket, officials said.The CBI further suspects that these very accused individuals, currently in custody, were also involved in the alleged NEET …