Education Minister Cancels Yoga Day Event at Delhi University After Student Protests

Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 07:29am on 21 Jun 2024,Friday India

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan canceled his Yoga Day event at Delhi University after students protested against alleged scams involving NEET and UGC-NET. Students displayed black flags and raised slogans, voicing their dissatisfaction with recent exam controversies. Pradhan acknowledged the UGC-NET paper leak as an "institutional failure" of the National Testing Agency (NTA) and announced a high-level committee to reform the agency. The committee will focus on improving NTA’s structure, examination process, and data security, aiming for error-free testing. This response comes amid mounting pressure over alleged exam malpractices affecting students nationwide.

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