The clarification comes amid a raging row over alleged irregularities in competitive exams, including the NEET-UG and the UGC-NET. The education ministry on Saturday set up a panel to review the NTA's functioning, recommend exam reforms and ensure data security.
"NTA website and all its web portals are fully secure. Any information that they have been compromised and hacked is wrong and misleading, a senior official said.
"NTA website, all its other web portals fully secure; information that they have been compromised or hacked wrong: Officials," tweeted PTI.
While the clarification comes amid a raging row over alleged in competitive exams, including the NEET-UG and the UGC-NET, the education ministry on Saturday set up a panel to review the NTA's functioning, recommend exam reforms and ensure data security.
The CBI has filed a case against unknown individuals based on a complaint from the Ministry of Education. Notably, the case has been handed over to the CBI to ensure transparency in the examination process.
Opposition parties and social organizations, along with groups of candidates, had demanded a high-level investigation into the matter. In response, the central government handed over the investigation of the NEET paper leak case to the CBI.
Following complaints of irregularities, the central government also replaced the head of the National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts several important exams including NEET and UGC NET. several academicians on Sunday urged the Centre to preserve the integrity of exams and stressed that overnight solutions are not possible in such complex cases.
Facing flak over alleged discrepancies in competitive exams, the Centre on Saturday shunted out National Testing Agency (NTA) Director General Subodh Singh and handed over the probe into irregularities in medical entrance exam NEET-UG to the CBI.