NEET UG 2022: NTA fact-finding committee to visit Kollam over Frisking incident

Earlier today, the NTA said that no complaint has been received about any girl appearing for the NEET exam, having been asked to remove innerwear.

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has constituted a fact-finding committee to visit Kollam following Kerala Police registering a case against friskers who forced girl candidates to remove undergarments for the NEET-UG 2022 exam.

The Education Ministry has asked the National Testing Agency to ascertain all the facts about the incident on the spot from stakeholders present at the Centre at that time.

Earlier today, the NTA commented on the allegations made by a female candidate on being asked to remove her innerwear before entering the exam centre in Kerala's Kollam district, NTA said that no complaint has been received about any girl appearing for the NEET exam, having been asked to remove innerwear.

The NTA in its statement said: “Centre Superintendent and Independent Observer as well as City Coordinator, Kollam district has stated that they did not find any such incident happening at the NEET examination centre (Mar Thoma Institute of Information Technology, Kollam).”

NTA Fact Finding Committee

V. Muraleedharan, MOS, Ministry of External Affairs & Parliamentary Affairs and other public representatives from Kerala met the Union Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan today on the issue. Dr. R. Bindu, Minister of Higher Education and Social Justice, Government of Kerala has also written a letter to Union Education Minister demanding a probe into the NEET-UG frisking incident.

As per a release issued b the Education Ministry, it has been brought to the notice of the Ministry of Education through various media reports that an incident allegedly happened in one of the Centre of NEET(UG)- 2022 near Kollam district in Kerala. “In view of the above, the Ministry of Education has asked the National Testing Agency to ascertain all the facts about the incident on the spot from stakeholders present at the Centre at that time,” it states.

Accordingly, a Fact Finding Committee has been constituted by the NTA to ascertain the facts in detail. Further action will be taken based on the report of the Fact-Finding Committee.

The NTA, however, confirmed that the candidate did take the NEET-UG 2022 exam on July 17.

The issue came to light on Monday when the father of a 17-year-old girl while speaking to the media stated that his daughter, who was sitting for her first-ever NEET exam, was yet to come out of the traumatic experience wherein she had to sit for the over 3-hour-long exam without a brassiere.

The father had told the media that his daughter was dressed as per the dress code mentioned in the NEET bulletin which did not say anything about innerwear.

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