Kerala NEET Controversy: NTA Formed Committee

Kerala NEET Controversy: The matter of removing the innerwear of girl students caught fire, picketing in many places, and NTA formed a committee.

During the Medical Entrance Examination (NEET) in Kerala, the girl students are getting harassed for taking off their undergarments. Protests have started in Kerala.

Incidents of vandalism have also come to the fore in the college. The commotion has increased so much that even the Union Education Ministry has to issue a statement regarding this.

Now information has come to the fore that the people probing had allegedly objected to the metal hooks in the undergarments of the girl students.

After increasing the ruckus, now the National Testing Agency (NTA) has constituted a fact-finding team for the investigation. So far, five women have been arrested for taking off their undergarments.

Let us tell you that this dispute started after a 17-year-old girl student filed a complaint.

The student alleges that during the screening before the entrance exam on Sunday, she was asked to remove her inner-wear.

At the same time, the Union Education Ministry said that Minister of State for External Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs V. Muraleedharan and other public representatives of Kerala have met Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in this regard.

Kerala Education and Social Justice Minister Dr. R. Bindu have also written a letter to the Union Education Minister regarding this.

Kerala NEET Controversy: Five women who conducted searches were arrested.

Kerala Police have arrested five women who forcibly took off the underwear of some students during a search ahead of the NEET exam at the Kollam Center in Kerala.

Police are interrogating all of them. According to Kerala Police, three of these women are employees of an agency appointed by the NTA.

While two other women are employees of a private educational institute (NEET examination center) located at Ayur in Kollam.

Kerala Police has registered a case under sections 354 and 509 of IPC for making students take off their underwear in the NEET exam.

The formal complaint was made by a 17-year-old student who appeared in this exam for the first time.