THE NATIONAL TESTING AGENCY IS A SCAM – SHUT IT DOWN NOW!
Ayesha Kidwal | 21 June 2024 | Kafila.online
In January this year, the autonomy of universities to conduct their own entrance examinations at the research level was snatched away by the UGC by an arbitrary diktat that the UGC NET examination conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) will serve as the sole examination by which admission to PhD programmes will be determined. All the Central University Vice Chancellors immediately complied with this directive, riding roughshod over the internal protests by students and teachers alike. The end result of going with this corrupt, disorganised organisation called the NTA is therefore this: THERE WILL BE NO ADMISSIONS TO THE PHD PROGRAMMES OF MOST UNIVERSITIES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE ACADEMIC YEAR IN JULY-AUGUST THIS YEAR.
Perhaps only one university tried to fight this NTA regime in the courts, way back in 2018-19, when it was first imposed on us in JNU. The courts gave us no relief. In our writ, we raised very legitimate concerns about the security and the format of the exam, but these were never even answered by JNU or the NTA. Instead, the same person who was JNU VC then was elevated to the head of the UGC…