Bengal edu min demands central agency probe into NEET scam
Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu has urged a Union government agency-led investigation into the recent paper leak of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET).
He said that while the Union government didn’t waste time in expediting a probe into alleged irregularities in teacher recruitment in Bengal, it is dragging its feet on ordering a proper investigation the NEET scam that has affected the future of lakhs of medical aspirants across the country.
“I fail to comprehend why no ED or CBI probe has been initiated so far into the NEET-UG irregularities. Isn’t it the Centre’s failure?,” he said on the sidelines of Education Interface 2024, an education fair organised by a forum of private higher educational institutes at the Netaji Indoor Stadium in Kolkata on Saturday, June 15.
Basu asserted that no such scam had occurred during the years when the Bengal government was in charge of holding the medical joint entrance examination for the state’s medical colleges.
He said that while so many arrests have been made in the teacher recruitment irregularities, the medical entrance examination scam was being sought to be brushed under the carpet.
The minister also criticised the role of the media in this, saying that while countless panel discussions have been held on the teacher recruitment irregularities, the media was suspiciously silent on the NEET issue.
“Isn’t the future of lakhs of MBBS aspirants important for the country, for the state?,” he asked, while talking on the media’s role.
