He also says the Centre would be taking affidavits from state governments on accuracy of translated NEET question papers from next year
Students will not need to travel to other states to writes the NEET exam from next year, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Prakash Javadekar assured on Thursday. He also said the Centre would be taking affidavits from state governments on accuracy of translated NEET question papers from next year.
The National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) is conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education for admission to MBBS/BDS courses.
The minister was responding to an issue raised by AIADMK member Vijila Sathyananth in Rajya Sabha regarding inaccurate translation of NEET questions in Tamil and the problems faced by students.
She said 49 questions in the paper translated in Tamil were vague due to problems in translation, thus making the students suffer. A PIL was filed in this regard and the court awarded grace marks to affected students, she said.
Javadekar said as the matter was in court, he would not speak much on the issue. He, however, said the translators were provided by the Tamil Nadu government.
The Minister further said from the next year, the Centre would be taking an affidavit from state governments that the translation done by their language experts was correct.
To her query on students appearing for NEET exam having to travel to distant places to write the paper, Javadekar said he has already ordered that from the next year there would be no displacement of students.
As another member wanted to speak on the issue, Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu said the minister has assured the House that students need not go to other states and will have facility to write exam in their respective places.
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Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said the Centre would be taking affidavits from state governments on accuracy of translated NEET question papers from next year to ensure the students don’t suffer.
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