BJP govt playing with future of students: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi: Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Indian Parliament, Rahul Gandhi has raised questions about the procedure of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government and the National Testing Agency (NTA) over the allotment of an examination centre in Abu Dhabi to a Nagpur candidate for the NET-UG re-examination.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Rahul Gandhi in a statement said the examination system has completely failed and the government and the NTA are playing with the future of students.
He said that a student from Nagpur was preparing for the NEET re-exam for the past one month and when he downloaded his admit card a day before the exam, his exam centre was allotted in Abu Dhabi. The student neither has a passport, nor the resources to go abroad and has no enough time to take the exam, so the student remained mentally stressed the whole night and refused to take the exam.
Rahul Gandhi said if a system cannot provide an exam centre to a student in his own city and allocates a centre in a foreign country, then it has no right to conduct the exam.
He said the students of the country deserve a fair and reliable education and examination system and their fight for it will continue.
It may be recalled that NTA had given preference to Nagpur, Wardha and Bhandar centers to student Abdullah Talib, but he was stunned to see the Abu Dhabi center in the admit card (hall ticket).
