New Delhi: The day earlier than the Supreme Court docket was set to listen to a number of petitions relating to purported irregularities in NEET-UG, in its submission to the Supreme Court docket, the Centre said on Wednesday that there was neither any indication of “mass malpractice” nor a localised set of candidates being benefitted resulting in irregular scores in NEET-UG 2024.
The centre said that the info analytics of NEET-UG 2024 outcomes carried out by IIT Madras and as per the findings given by the specialists, the marks distribution follows the bell-shaped curve that’s witnessed in any large-scale examination indicating no abnormality.
In an extra affidavit submitted to the apex court docket, the Centre introduced that for the tutorial yr 2024-25, the counselling course of for undergraduate seats shall be carried out in 4 rounds ranging from the third week of July.
Alternatively, the Nationwide Testing Company (NTA), which conducts lots of the prestigious exams additionally filed a separate addition affidavit within the prime court docket and said that it has carried out an evaluation of the distribution of marks in NEET-UG 2024 on the nationwide, state, metropolis and centre degree.
“This evaluation signifies that the distribution of marks is sort of regular and there appears to be no extraneous issue, which might affect the distribution of marks,” the NTA mentioned in its affidavit, PTI reported.
A bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud is scheduled to listen to on Thursday relating to the contentious NEET-UG 2024 medical entrance examination. This plea consists of allegations of irregularities and malpractices within the Might 5 check and looking for a path to conduct it afresh.
On July eight listening to, the apex court docket noticed that the sanctity of NEET-UG 2024 has been “breached”.
In its extra affidavit filed on Wednesday, the Centre said that below the apex court docket’s path, the Ministry of Schooling had requested the Director of IIT Madras to conduct thorough knowledge analytics of the outcomes of candidates who participated in NEET-UG 2024.
“It’s submitted that pursuant thereto an exhaustive and elaborate technical analysis of the info pertaining to the NEET-UG 2024 examination was carried out by IIT Madras, utilizing the parameters like marks distribution, city-wise and centre-wise rank distribution and candidates unfold over marks vary, and the next findings have been given by the specialists of the IIT Madras…,” it mentioned, PTI reported.
