Ministry, NTA, NMC officials to face parliamentary panel on health tomorrow over NEET re-exam

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KYS members and supporters stage a protest against recent alleged NTA Scams outside Ministry of Education in New Delhi on June 01, 2026. File | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap

Top officials of the Health and Education Ministries, National Testing Agency and National Medical Commission will brief a parliamentary panel on Wednesday (June 10, 2026) over the conduct of the NEET-UG re-examination on June 21.

The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare has summoned the secretaries of Higher Education and Health, besides top officials of the NTA and NMC, to brief the panel on the NEET re-exam.

This is the third parliamentary panel before whom the top officials of the Ministries and NTA (National Testing Agency) and NMC (National Medical Commission) are appearing.

Top officials of the Union Health and Education Ministries, as well as of NTA and NMC, have already appeared before the Parliamentary Committees on Education and the Committee on Government Assurances, and told them that their complete focus for now was to hold the June 21 NEET-UG re-test in pen-paper format.

CBI Director Praveen Sood has also appeared before a parliamentary panel about the progress made in the probe into the NEET-UG paper leak case and the steps being taken to arrest all those behind the paper leakage.

The summoning of officials on June 10 comes in the wake of the cancellation of the NEET-UG exam held on May 3 following reports of a paper leak.

Some students have also committed suicide after the exam cancellation, and there are growing concerns among the student community over the re-examination of the NEET exam.

The Parliamentary Committee on Health, which looks into the functioning of the Union Health Ministry, will now question the officials on the examination and its conduct.

The panel will hear the views of the Secretary, Department of Health and Family Welfare (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare) and the Secretary, Department of Higher Education (